Roozbeh Mottaghi
Member Of Technical Staff at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoozbeh Mottaghi is a research-driven AI and robotics leader with 10+ years building embodied intelligence, 3D perception, and multi-modal learning systems across industry and academia. He has held senior research and management roles at Meta FAIR Robotics and the Allen Institute for AI while serving as an Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington, blending long-horizon agent design with rigorous academic mentoring. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Skild AI, he is known for advancing world models, future prediction, and embodied simulators that bridge vision, language, and action. His career reflects a rare mix of hands-on research, team leadership, and cross-institution collaboration, grounded in a PhD in Computer Science from UCLA. An understated strength is his ability to translate complex embodied-AI research into scalable systems and organizational roadmaps.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Sharif University of TechnologyMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los AngelesMaster's degree, Engineering Science, Master's degree, Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (24)
physics-engine10
artificial-intelligence10
interaction10
computer-vision10
reinforcement-learning7
python7
procedural-generation6
deep-learning6
robotics6
gazebosim6
ros5
vtk5
robotics-simulation5
ai5
machine-learning5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
roozbehm/roozbehm.github.io
Dec 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:118 pushes in 5 years 3 months
allenai/forces
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 2 comments in 5 months
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