Faculty

Abhishek Gupta is an assistant professor in computer science and engineering at the Paul G. Allen School at the University of Washington, where he leads the Washington Embodied Intelligence and Robotics Development (WEIRD) Lab.

Previously, Gupta was a post-doctoral scholar at MIT, collaborating with Russ Tedrake and Pulkit Agarwal. He completed his Ph.D. in machine learning and robotics at BAIR at UC Berkeley advised by Professor Sergey Levine and Professor Pieter Abbeel. Previously, he completed his bachelor’s degree also at UC Berkeley.

Gupta’s main research goal is to develop algorithms which enable robotic systems to learn how to perform complex tasks in a variety of unstructured environments like offices and homes. To that end, he works towards building deep reinforcement learning algorithms that can learn in the real world, with and around humans.