Peter Karkus

Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Switzerland

About

I am a researcher working in the intersection of machine learning, computer vision and robotics, with a long-term vision of building human-level robot intelligence. My research focuses on autonomous vehicles and embodied AI that combines learning with structure and reasoning. My recent works are on neural networks that encode classic robot algorithms in order to learn partially observable planning, visual navigation, localization, and mapping tasks.

Experience

  • Research Scientist at NVIDIA
    Aug 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

  • National University of Singapore (6 yrs)
    • Research Assistant
      Mar 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Ph.D. Candidate
      Aug 2015 - Jul 2021 · 6 yrs

      Research on embodied AI that integrates deep learning with robot algorithms

  • Research Intern at DeepMind
    Sep 2019 - Jan 2020 · 5 mos

  • Research Intern at Google AI
    May 2019 - Aug 2019 · 4 mos

  • Visiting Researcher at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
    Jul 2018 - Apr 2019 · 10 mos

    Visitor at Learning and Intelligent Systems Group lead by prof. Leslie Pack Kaelbling and prof. Tomas Lozano-Perez