Ruta Desai
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRuta Desai is a research scientist and manager with nine years of experience translating robotics and human-computer interaction research into embodied AI and adaptive AR systems for human assistance. With a PhD from Carnegie Mellon, she has built optimization-driven design tools to make robot design accessible and led teams at Facebook Reality Labs and Meta FAIR working on collaborative robot agents and the Habitat3 embodied AI platform. Her background spans academia and industry—ranging from motion-capture studies at Disney Research to UI-focused internships at Autodesk—giving her a rare blend of biomechanics, perception, and interactive design expertise. Based in Redmond, she focuses on contextual, personalized AR interfaces that deliver the right information at the right time, and actively recruits interns and post-docs to advance this vision.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Institute of Technology SuratDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (37)
artificial-intelligence10
robotics10
modular10
python10
simulator10
machine-learning10
reinforcement-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
ai10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
data-science9
ml9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
facebookresearch/EgoTV
Apr 2023 - Jan 2024
EgoTV Egocentric Task Verification from Natural Language Task Descriptions
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 comment in 9 months
facebookresearch/spot-sim2real
Oct 2023 - Feb 2024
Spot Sim2Real Infrastructure
Contributions:15 reviews, 15 comments in 3 months
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