Yashraj Narang

Yashraj Narang is a senior robotics research manager at NVIDIA Research, where he leads the Seattle Robotics Lab (SRL). He holds a PhD in Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering from Harvard University and focuses on physics-based simulation, reinforcement learning, and sim-to-real transfer for robotic manipulation. He is best known for his work on contact-rich assembly tasks, including the IndustReal and DeXtreme papers, which advance the transfer of complex manipulation skills from simulation to real-world robots.