Anirudha Majumdar
Anirudha Majumdar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Princeton Robotics Initiative and holds an associated faculty appointment in Computer Science. He leads the Intelligent Robot Motion Lab (IRoM-Lab), which focuses on developing generalist robots that are safe, trustworthy, and capable, with recent work spanning world models, uncertainty quantification, and inference-time planning for robot policies. He additionally holds a part-time visiting research scientist position at Google DeepMind in Princeton. He is a recipient of the Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER award, ONR Young Investigator Program award, and multiple best paper awards at robotics conferences.
“His lab appears to be producing a stream of related work (Playworld [26], LAP [30], uncertainty quantification [54], inference-time planning [52]), positioning Princeton as a hub for video world model research in robotics”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.