Rudra Poudel
Associate Principal Research Scientist
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRudra Poudel is an Associate Principal Research Scientist based in Cambridge with 11 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, and robotics, now leading research at Toshiba Research Europe. His work spans unsupervised and multimodal representation learning, causality-aware world models, reinforcement and embodied AI, and generative methods aimed at building more brain-like machine intelligence. He has a strong academic foundation (PhD Bournemouth) and a track record mentoring PhD students across Cambridge and Oxford, plus research internships at Microsoft Research and Siemens. Earlier in his career he co-founded and scaled an R&D firm, bringing product-minded engineering and team leadership to research challenges. Known for blending theoretical rigor with practical systems for autonomous and medical imaging applications, he’s focused on translating world-model and multimodal advances into embodied, real-world agents.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, MSc, Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at University of SussexMBA, Management Information Systems, MBA, Management Information Systems at Tribhuvan UniversityPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Bournemouth University
English, Nepali, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (55)
imitation-learning10
unreal-engine-410
python10
simulator10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
computer-vision10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
ros10
data-science9
artificial-intelligence9
simulation9
cross-platform9
ml9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rudrapoudel/hello_ml
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
rudrapoudel/utils
Feb 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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