Scholar
Ankur Handa
Google Scholar ID: sCTJI-0AAAAJ
Principal Scientist, NVIDIA
Citations & Impact
Citations
8,470
H-index
34
i10-index
45
Publications
20
Co-authors
29
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - VaFRIC and ICL-NUIM projects, using computer graphics to benchmark tracking and SLAM systems
- - SceneNet and SceneNet RGB-D projects, using computer graphics for scene understanding (semantic segmentation)
- - Using GPU Accelerated Physics with Reinforcement Learning to close the sim-to-real gap
- - DexPilot project, enabling entirely vision-based teleoperation for many challenging robotics tasks
- - Paper: A User's Guide to Calibrating Robotics Simulators, Bhairav Mehta, Ankur Handa, Dieter Fox, Fabio Ramos, CoRL 2020
- - Paper: DexPilot: Vision Based Teleoperation of Dexterous Robotic Hand-Arm System, Ankur Handa*, Karl Van Wyk*, Wei Yang, Jacky Liang, Yu-Wei Chao, Qian Wan, Stan Birchfield, Nathan Ratliff, Dieter Fox, ICRA 2020
- - Paper: Model-based Generalization under Parameter Uncertainty using Path Integral Control, Ian Abraham, Ankur Handa, Nathan Ratliff, Kendall Lowrey, Todd D. Murphey, Dieter Fox, RA-L and ICRA 2020
- - Paper: In-Hand Object Pose Tracking via Contact Feedback and GPU-Accelerated Robotic Simulation, Jacky Liang, Ankur Handa, Karl Van Wyk, Viktor Makoviychuk, Oliver Kroemer, Dieter Fox, ICRA 2020
- - Paper: ContactGrasp: Functional Multi-finger Grasp Synthesis from Contact, Samarth Brahmbhatt, Ankur Handa, James Hays, Dieter Fox, IROS 2019
Research Experience
- - Research Scientist at NVIDIA Robotics
- - Research Scientist at OpenAI
Education
- PhD: Imperial College
Background
- Research Interests: Intersection of perception (computer vision) and control for robotics. Work focuses heavily on machine learning, optimization, and simulations (rendering and physics). Currently a Research Scientist at NVIDIA Robotics, previously a Research Scientist at OpenAI.
Miscellany
- Maintains the sim2realAIorg Twitter channel, regularly posting recent interesting work on sim-to-real and blogging about interesting stuff at https://sim2realai.github.io/
