Unnat Jain
CS Faculty at UC Irvine
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolUnnat Jain is a computer science faculty and researcher with nine years of experience building deep learning, computer vision, and robotics systems across academia and industry. He has driven embodied intelligence and perception research at Meta FAIR, DeepMind, AI2, and startups, and recently worked on agile robot learning at Skild AI before joining UC Irvine. His work spans simulation-to-real challenges like audio-visual navigation and interactive imitation learning, with roots in IIT Kanpur and a PhD from UIUC. Known for blending rigorous academic research with practical system-building, he repeatedly tackles multimodal perception and control problems that bridge reinforcement learning and real-world robotics. An interesting thread through his career is applying vision techniques from autonomous driving to embodied agents and e-commerce visual search, revealing a knack for transferring methods across domains.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurSt. James' School (Kolkata)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (27)
computer-vision8
interaction8
reinforcement-learning8
robotics8
simulator8
simulation7
multiple-choice7
deep-learning7
python7
ai6
physics-engine6
machine-learning6
django6
lms6
pytorch6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
karanganju/2048RL
Apr 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 12 pushes in 10 months
unnat/active_gcn_ner
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes in 2 days
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