Lerrel Pinto
Research Director at Meta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLerrel Pinto is a research director and entrepreneur who builds general-purpose robots that operate in messy, unpredictable real-world environments, leveraging large-scale data, multi-modal reasoning, and self-improvement at scale. With a decade of experience spanning academia and industry—Assistant Professor at NYU, PhD from Carnegie Mellon, postdoc at Berkeley, research roles at OpenAI, and recent founder exits to Amazon and Meta—he bridges foundational robot learning with product-grade systems. His work has earned major honors (TR35, Sloan, Packard, CIFAR, NSF CAREER) and multiple best-paper awards at ICRA and RSS, reflecting both deep technical rigor and practical impact. Based in New York, he combines the curiosity of an academic inventor with startup execution, often translating lab breakthroughs into acquired companies and media-visible innovations.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering at IIT GUWAHATI
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Github Skills (9)
adversarial-learning10
reinforcement-learning8
robotics4
openai-gym3
ros3
dart2
arm2
python-bindings1
animation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lerrel/gym-adv
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Gym environments modified with adversarial agents
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
reinforcement-learningadversarial-learning
lerrel/wowchemy-widget-lerrel
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:55 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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