Nitish Dashora
Scholar

Nitish Dashora

Google Scholar ID: gB87zD4AAAAJ
PhD Student, MIT (prev. UC Berkeley)
Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
242
 
H-index
2
 
i10-index
2
 
Publications
5
 
Co-authors
4
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Supported by the NSF GRFP.
Research Experience
  • Worked with Stuart Russell, Amazon AWS, and NASA JPL.
Education
  • PhD student in EECS at MIT CSAIL, studying under Pulkit Agrawal; completed undergraduate in EECS at UC Berkeley, where he researched robotic AI under Sergey Levine and neural computation under Bruno Olshausen.
Background
  • Research interests include robot learning, lifelong learning systems, foundation models, and open-ended knowledge acquisition. Also interested in ML research, particularly reinforcement learning, unsupervised learning, and general intelligence.
Miscellany
  • Enjoys watching and reviewing movies and TV shows, favorite modern directors include Denis Villeneuve, Christopher Nolan, and Robert Eggers. Loves cooking and trying new cocktails or coffees, recently started producing, using autotune singing, and writing music that resembles alternative rock and indie pop. Enjoys playing soccer and going to the gym, occasionally plays video games.