Scholar
Nicholas Rhinehart
Google Scholar ID: xUGZX_MAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,803
H-index
21
i10-index
27
Publications
20
Co-authors
75
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers on topics such as social robot navigation, preference-based reinforcement learning, LiDAR world models, and more.
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, 2024 - Present
- Senior Research Scientist, Waymo Research, 2022 - 2024
- Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley RAIL Lab, 2019 - 2022
- Research Intern, UC Berkeley RAIL Lab, 2018
- Research Intern, NEC Labs Media Analytics, 2017
- Research Intern, Uber Advanced Technologies Group, 2016
- Ph.D. Student Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University, 2014 – 2019
Education
- Ph.D. in Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2014-2019; Advisor: Kris Kitani
- M.S. in Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2013-2014
- B.S. in Engineering, Swarthmore College, 2008-2012
- B.A. in Computer Science, Swarthmore College, 2008-2012
Background
- Research Interests: Robot learning, development of broadly useful autonomous systems. Specializes in model-based and model-free reinforcement learning, imitation learning, information theory, and deep learning.
