Scholar
Nicholas Pfaff
Google Scholar ID: LDko8mYAAAAJ
MIT
Citations & Impact
Citations
18
H-index
2
i10-index
0
Publications
3
Co-authors
8
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications: 'Steerable Scene Generation with Post Training and Inference-Time Search' (CoRL 2025), 'Scalable Real2Sim: Physics-Aware Asset Generation Via Robotic Pick-and-Place Setups' (IROS 2025), etc.; Awards: Featured in MIT CSAIL Student Research Spotlight (2025), Graduate Teaching Award for MIT Schwarzman College of Computing (2025), Head of Department's prize from Imperial College London (2022).
Research Experience
- Before joining MIT, worked at Ocado Technology for nine months on parallel yaw pick-and-place systems at scale; Interned at Toyota Research Institute's Large Behavior Models team from May 2024.
Education
- PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Advisor: Prof. Russ Tedrake, Group: Robot Locomotion Group; MEng: Imperial College London.
Background
- Research interests: scaling realistic simulations for generating training data and evaluation benchmarks, combining model-based and learning-based methods; Professional field: robotic manipulation foundation models; Bio: a third-year PhD student at MIT.
Miscellany
- Interests: rock climbing, backpacking, Latin social dancing, specialty coffee.
