Simar Kareer
Computer Scientist at Georgia Tech
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolSimar Kareer is a PhD student in robot learning at Georgia Tech with a decade of experience blending academic research and industry practice to teach robots to interact with the world by watching videos of people. His background spans roles from quantitative strategy at Goldman Sachs to data science at Lyft and research internships in physical intelligence, giving him a rare mix of ML research rigor and product-minded experimentation. Based in Atlanta, he focuses on visual imitation and embodied perception, translating human demonstrations into robot actions. He also engages with the startup and angel-investing community through GT Angel Network, bringing an entrepreneurial lens to technical problems. Known for hands-on project work shared on GitHub, he pairs strong theoretical foundations with practical prototypes that bridge lab results and real-world robotics.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Georgia Institute of TechnologyCherokee High School
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Github Skills (22)
pytorch-lightning10
hydra9
simulator9
robotics9
robot9
computer-vision8
reinforcement-learning8
simulation8
modular8
machine-learning7
high-performance6
ai6
python5
trajectory-generation4
profiling3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SimarKareer/robomimic
Jan 2024 - Jan 2025
robomimic: A Modular Framework for Robot Learning from Demonstration
Contributions:3 reviews, 11 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year
2729StormRobotics/StormCV2017
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 3 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 month
visiondeep-learningcomputer-visionfrcseason
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