Tal Daniel
Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolTal Daniel is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute with a PhD from the Technion focused on unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, and robotics, bringing eight years of research and teaching experience. He has a strong academic track record—Summa Cum Laude M.Sc. on deep variational semi-supervised novelty detection and extensive TA roles for machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision courses, earning Outstanding TA awards. His work spans both foundational representation learning and applied robotics, including a machine learning researcher stint at NVIDIA and an internship at Cornell Tech in ML for cybersecurity. Tal publishes teaching and tutorial code openly (multiple course repositories) demonstrating a commitment to reproducible education alongside research. Based in Pittsburgh, he blends deep theoretical expertise with practical prototyping in robotics and RL, often bridging classroom instruction and cutting-edge lab work.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Deep Learning Representation Learning Generative Modeling, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Deep Learning Representation Learning Generative Modeling at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Github Skills (25)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
taldatech/ee046746-computer-vision
Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
Jupyter Notecbook tutorials for the Technion's EE Computer Vision course
Contributions:30 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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taldatech/taldatech.github.io
Feb 2021 - Feb 2025
SinglePaged - Simple Jekyll template
Contributions:64 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
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