Vikas Sindhwani

Vikas Sindhwani 

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

I draw inspiration from learning, perception, reasoning and motor-control problems that a human child can solve but a machine currently cannot. I am interested in all aspects of building large-scale, safe and robust AI systems.

I am Research Scientist in the Robotics team at Google DeepMind, NYC.

Bio
sindhwani@google.com

Publications

Google Scholar Page

  • “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done”Alan Turing, 1950

  • “Simplicity is the final achievement”Frederic Chopin

  • “To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable”Beethoven

  • “Coauthorship is a closer relationship than friendship”Fan Chung

  • “The search is more important than the destination”A.R. Rahman

  • “You are never too far behind to win and never too far ahead to lose”seen at Arlen Specter Squash Center

  • I have no doubt I'll be forgotten, and that's good. … I had the privilege of playing for you all, now let's move on"George Winston

2024

  • Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
    David B. D'Ambrosio, Saminda Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, Heni Ben Amor, Alex Bewley, Barney J. Reed, Krista Reymann, Leila Takayama, Yuval Tassa, Krzysztof Choromanski, Erwin Coumans, Deepali Jain, Navdeep Jaitly, Natasha Jaques, Satoshi Kataoka, Yuheng Kuang, Nevena Lazic, Reza Mahjourian, Sherry Moore, Kenneth Oslund, Anish Shankar, Vikas Sindhwani, Vincent Vanhoucke, Grace Vesom, Peng Xu, Pannag R. Sanketi
    Project Website, 2024

2023

2022

  • Hybrid Random Features
    Krzysztof Choromanski, Haoxian Chen, Han Lin, Yuanzhe Ma, Arijit Sehanobish, Deepali Jain, Michael S Ryoo, Jake Varley, Andy Zeng, Valerii Likhosherstov, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Vikas Sindhwani, Adrian Weller
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2022 (to appear)

2021

2020

  • Rearranging the Visual World: Transporter Networks
    Andy Zeng, Pete Florence, Jonathan Tompson, Stefan Welker, Jonathan Chien, Maria Attarian, Travis Armstrong, Ivan Krasin, Dan Duong, Vikas Sindhwani, Johnny Lee
    Conference on Robot Learning (CORL), 2020
    Best Paper Presentation Award Finalist!

  • An Ode to an ODE
    Krzysztof Choromanski, Jared Quincy Davis, Valerii Likhosherstov, Xingyou Song, Jean-Jacques Slotine, Jacob Varley, Honglak Lee, Adrian Weller, Vikas Sindhwani
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020

2019

2018

  • The Geometry of Random Features
    Krzysztof Choromanski, Mark Rowland, Tamas Sarlos, Vikas Sindhwani, Richard Turner, Adrian Weller
    International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS’18)

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2011

2010

  • Recommender Systems
    P. Melville, V. Sindhwani
    Encyclopedia of Machine Learning, Springer, 2010.

  • Social Media Analytics
    R. Lawrence, P. Melville, C. Perlich, V.Sindhwani, E.Meliksetian, P.Hsueh, Y. Liu
    Operations Research - Management Science Today (ORMS-Today), Feburary 2010

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Earlier