Scholar
Erik Wijmans
Google Scholar ID: 9v86038AAAAJ
Apple
Citations & Impact
Citations
7,020
H-index
22
i10-index
25
Publications
20
Co-authors
20
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published 'Emergence of Maps in the Memories of Blind Navigation Agents' at ICLR 2023, recognized as Top-5% (Oral) and awarded Outstanding Paper Award (4 out of 4900).
- Published 'VER: Scaling On-Policy RL Leads to Emergence of Navigation in Embodied Rearrangement' at NeurIPS 2022.
- Published 'Does Spatial Cognition Emerge in Frontier Models?' at ICLR 2025.
- Published 'Cut Your Losses in Large-Vocabulary Language Models' at ICLR 2025, selected for Oral presentation (top 1.8%).
- Published 'Large Batch Simulation for Deep Reinforcement Learning' at ICLR 2021.
- Published 'DD-PPO: Learning Near-Perfect PointGoal Navigators from 2.5 Billion Frames' at ICLR 2020.
- Published 'Robust Autonomy Emerges from Self-Play' at ICML 2025.
Research Experience
- Currently a research scientist at Apple.
- Summer 2020 intern at Intel, working with Vladlen Koltun.
- Summer 2019 intern at FAIR, working with Manolis Savva.
- Summer 2018 research intern at Facebook Reality Labs (FRL), working with Julian Straub.
- Collaborated with Yasu Furukawa (now at SFU) while at Washington University in St. Louis.
- Spent a summer working with Yinzhi Cao (now at JHU) at Lehigh University.
- Mentored two students during PhD: Joel Ye (MS@GT → CMU PhD) and Guillermo Nicolas Grande (MS@GT → Microsoft).
