Tanmay Shankar
Research Scientist at RAI Institute
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolTanmay Shankar is a Research Scientist at the Robotics & AI Institute with 11 years of experience advancing robot learning and temporal abstractions, grounded in a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. His work spans translating human skills to robots and unsupervised skill learning, with research and engineering stints at Meta/Facebook AI Research and multiple roles at CMU. He brings a rare combination of deep academic training and industry impact, having collaborated with leading researchers on practical robot skill transfer. Based in Pittsburgh, he blends expertise in mechanical engineering (IIT Guwahati) with cutting-edge AI methods to push robots toward more human-like, temporally structured behaviors.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (68)
ros-node10
causality10
causal-inference10
occupancy-grid-map9
python9
deep-learning9
ros9
machine-learning9
generalization9
scanning9
tensorflow9
information-theory9
localization8
robotics8
neural-network8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tanmayshankar/DeepVectorPolicyFields
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:148 commits, 150 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
tanmayshankar/ActionPrimitives
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:238 commits, 224 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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