Kevin Zakka
Hey there! I'm a CS PhD student at UC Berkeley, where I am advised by Pieter Abbeel. My research lies at the intersection of robotics and machine learning.
Kevin Zakka is a second year PhD student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, where he is advised by Pieter Abbeel. He received his MS in Computer Science with a distinction in research from Stanford University in 2021 and his BEng in Electrical Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 2018. His research lies at the intersection of robotics and machine learning. Kevin has been finalist for best paper awards at CoRL 2021 and ICRA 2020. He is also the recipient of the Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant Award.
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zakka at berkeley dot edu
2023
RoboPianist is released2022
MuJoCo Menagerie is open-sourced2021
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) Best Paper Award Finalist award2020
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Best Paper in Automation Award FinalistXIRL: Cross-Embodiment Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Kevin Zakka, Andy Zeng, Pete Florence, Jonathan Tompson, Jeannette Bohg, Debidatta Dwibedi
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2021
★ Best Paper Award Finalist, CoRL ★
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Form2Fit: Learning Shape Priors for Generalizable Assembly from Disassembly
Kevin Zakka, Andy Zeng, Johnny Lee, Shuran Song
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2020
★ Best Paper in Automation Award Finalist, ICRA ★
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2 Minute Papers
2021
Head TA for CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition