I am on the technical staff at OpenAI, where I'm working to build general embodied intelligence.
I completed my PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from The Allen School at The University of Washington, where I was co-advised by Dieter Fox and Byron Boots. My thesis focused on using lots of synthetic data to train policies that control physical robots in complex environments. You can find my dissertation defense slides here.
Long ago, I helped build the SLAM system for Oculus Quest.
I like to ride bikes, hike with my dog, and make pizza.
News
| August 2024 | I joined OpenAI as a Member of Technical Staff, focused on robotic learning. |
| May 2024 | I defended my dissertation before my committee: Dieter Fox, Byron Boots, Abhishek Gupta, Karen Leung |
| June 2023 - Present | I am working as a student researcher at Google DeepMind on large models for dexterous manipulation |
| December 2022 | I am co-organizing a workshop at CoRL 2022 on Benchmarking in Robotic Manipulation |
| December 2022 | Nikkei Robotics published an article on Motion Policy Networks |
| Fall 2022 | I am the TA for Intelligent Control Through Learning And Optimization at UW |
| April 2022 | Blue Origin awarded us a grant—with me as co-PI—to send Motion Policy Networks into space, but sadly the grant fell through |
| March 2022 | The Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM) accepted our abstract Motion Policy Networks |
| Spring 2021 | I was the TA for AI-based Mobile Robotics at UW |
| Summer 2020-Winter 2021 | I co-organized a series of anti-racism workshops for the UW robotics group |
| Spring 2020 | I gave a lecture on SfM/Visual SLAM for Steve Seitz and Rick Szeliski's Computer Vision Course at UW |
| Summer 2019-2023 | I was a research intern with NVIDIA's robotics research lab |
| Fall 2018 | I received the UW Reality Lab fellowship |
Publications
- Fishman, Adam, Aaron Walsman, Mohak Bhardwaj, Wentao Yuan, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Byron Boots, Dieter Fox. "Avoid Everything: Model-Free Collision Avoidance with Expert-Guided Fine-Tuning." ICRA Workshop on Future Roadmap for Manipulation Skills (2024). (Paper)
- Sundaralingam, Balakumar, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Adam Fishman, Caelan Reed Garrett, Karl Van Wyk, Valts Blukis, Alexander Millane, Helen Oleynikova, Ankur Handa, Fabio Tozeto Ramos, Nathan D. Ratliff, Dieter Fox. "CuRobo: Parallelized Collision-Free Robot Motion Generation." ICRA (2023). (Website, Paper)
- Murali, Adithyavairavan, Arsalan Mousavian, Clemens Eppner, Adam Fishman, Dieter Fox. "CabiNet: Scaling Neural Collision Detection for Object Rearrangement with Procedural Scene Generation." ICRA (2023). (Website, Paper)
- Fishman, Adam, Adithyavairavan Murali, Clemens Eppner, Bryan Peele, Byron Boots and Dieter Fox. "Motion Policy Networks." CoRL (2022). (Website, Paper)
- Walsman, Aaron, Muru Zhang, Adam Fishman, Karthik Desingh, Dieter Fox, Ali Farhadi. "LegoTron: An Environment for Interactive Structural Understanding." CVPR Workshop on Embodied AI (2021).
- Mukherjee, Shohin, Chris Paxton, Arsalan Mousavian, Adam Fishman, Maxim Likhachev and Dieter Fox. “Reactive Long Horizon Task Execution via Visual Skill and Precondition Models.” 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2021): 5717-5724. (Paper)
- Lambert, Alexander, Adam Fishman, Dieter Fox, Byron Boots and Fabio Tozeto Ramos. “Stein Variational Model Predictive Control.” CoRL (2020). (Paper)
- Fishman, Adam, Chris Paxton, Wei Yang, Dieter Fox, Byron Boots and Nathan D. Ratliff. “Collaborative Interaction Models for Optimized Human-Robot Teamwork.” 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2020): 11221-11228. (Website, Paper)