Alejandro Escontrela
AI Researcher
Berkeley Way West
2121 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Hi! I’m Alejandro! I’m currently a 3rd year PhD student at Berkeley AI Research advised by Pieter Abbeel. My work is supported by the NSF and the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Fellowship.
I am broadly interested in reinforcement learning, unsupervised learning, and robotics. Specifically, my work focuses on extracting behavior priors for RL agents from internet data, making RL super sample efficient, and leveraging large generative models as priors. Before joining BAIR, I completed my undergrad at Georgia Tech, advised by Frank Dellaert. I was also a Research Intern at Google Brain from 2018-2022.
Contact: mail AT escontrela.me
news
Jul 13, 2024 | Score matching RL will be presented at the International Conference on Maching Learning in Vienna (website , code ) |
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Jun 24, 2024 | I’m interning at DeepMind with Thomas Kipf! |
Sep 22, 2023 | VIPER 🐍 was accepted to NeurIPS in New Orleans! (website , X , code , paper ) |
Aug 14, 2023 | Some of my work was featured in the latest BBC One Panorama documentary . Check out “Beyond Human: Artificial Intelligence and Us”! |
May 24, 2023 | We released Video Prediction Rewards (VIPER 🐍). Check out our website , Twitter , code , and the paper |
Dec 14, 2022 | I’m co-organizing the Learning for Agile Robotics workshop at CoRL 2022. Recordings are live on the site! |
Oct 22, 2022 | Adversarial Motion Priors Make Good Substitutes for Complex Reward Functions was nominated for best paper award at IROS, Kyoto 2022 (11 nominations from >1700 submissions) |
Jul 22, 2022 | DayDreamer: World Models for Physical Robot Learning was covered by: TechCrunch, MIT Technology Review, Daily Mail, India Times, and more |
Jun 30, 2022 | Autonomously Untangling Long Cables won Best Systems Paper Award at RSS, NYC 2022 |
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selected publications
- International Conference on Maching Learning 2024
- Neural Information Processing Systems 2023
- International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2024
- International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2022Best Paper Award finalist,
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- Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 2022
- Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 2021
- Robotics Proceedings 2022Best Systems Paper Award,
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