Akanksha Saran
@akanksha-saran.bsky.social
AI. RL. Robots+Humans. Building general purpose agents.
Research Scientist in the Gaming and Interactive Agents Group at Sony AI.
Prev: MSFT Research, NVIDIA, Apple, UT Austin, CMU, IIT Jodhpur.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zZhWSQ0AAAAJ&hl=en
Research Scientist in the Gaming and Interactive Agents Group at Sony AI.
Prev: MSFT Research, NVIDIA, Apple, UT Austin, CMU, IIT Jodhpur.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zZhWSQ0AAAAJ&hl=en
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🙌 Meet the 2024 ACM Technical Awards Recipients!
🏆 Peter Stone – ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
For significant contributions to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence (AI).
🔗 bit.ly/3EJkbje
🏆 Peter Stone – ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
For significant contributions to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence (AI).
🔗 bit.ly/3EJkbje
Peter Stone, Professor, University of Texas at Austin, receives the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award
Peter Stone, Professor, University of Texas at Austin, receives the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for significant contributions to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence (AI), especially i...
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May 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🙌 Meet the 2024 ACM Technical Awards Recipients!
🏆 Peter Stone – ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
For significant contributions to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence (AI).
🔗 bit.ly/3EJkbje
🏆 Peter Stone – ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
For significant contributions to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence (AI).
🔗 bit.ly/3EJkbje
Hello #CHI2025! 🌸
Excited for my first CHI LBW (albeit remotely)! I'll be sharing work on an eye-tracking prototype I built during my postdoc at MSR, which aims to improve an often frustrating gaze typing experience.
Looking forward to meeting others exploring the ML × HCI space—let’s connect!
Excited for my first CHI LBW (albeit remotely)! I'll be sharing work on an eye-tracking prototype I built during my postdoc at MSR, which aims to improve an often frustrating gaze typing experience.
Looking forward to meeting others exploring the ML × HCI space—let’s connect!
Conference Programs
programs.sigchi.org
April 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hello #CHI2025! 🌸
Excited for my first CHI LBW (albeit remotely)! I'll be sharing work on an eye-tracking prototype I built during my postdoc at MSR, which aims to improve an often frustrating gaze typing experience.
Looking forward to meeting others exploring the ML × HCI space—let’s connect!
Excited for my first CHI LBW (albeit remotely)! I'll be sharing work on an eye-tracking prototype I built during my postdoc at MSR, which aims to improve an often frustrating gaze typing experience.
Looking forward to meeting others exploring the ML × HCI space—let’s connect!
Reposted by Akanksha Saran
The new foundation model from physical intelligence - pi-0.5 - works zero-shot in multiple homes. They tested at airbnbs around san fransisco. I also really love the robot design.
blog: www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi05
blog: www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi05
April 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The new foundation model from physical intelligence - pi-0.5 - works zero-shot in multiple homes. They tested at airbnbs around san fransisco. I also really love the robot design.
blog: www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi05
blog: www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi05
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It’s about time! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t...
Turing Award Goes to A.I. Pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It’s about time! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t...
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Let's go! Really psyched to have Barto and Sutton win the Turing award for Reinforcement Learning! Their work shaped my career in such profound ways.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t...
Turing Award Goes to A.I. Pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Let's go! Really psyched to have Barto and Sutton win the Turing award for Reinforcement Learning! Their work shaped my career in such profound ways.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t...
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The 2024 Turing Prize winners announced this morning: Barto & Sutton for "developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning". Well deserved. Built on 1959 Donald Michie's idea; matchboxes and colored beads learning tic-tac-toe. awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. In a series of papers beginning...
awards.acm.org
March 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The 2024 Turing Prize winners announced this morning: Barto & Sutton for "developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning". Well deserved. Built on 1959 Donald Michie's idea; matchboxes and colored beads learning tic-tac-toe. awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...