Gavriel State
Senior Director for Simulation and AI at NVIDIA, heading the team behind Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab
Gavriel State is a Senior Director for Simulation and AI at NVIDIA, where State leads the team building the Isaac Sim robotics simulator and Isaac Lab for reinforcement learning and sim-to-real robot transfer. State's work also covers real-to-sim 3D reconstruction, including rendering technologies such as 3D Gaussian Ray Tracing, and synthetic data generation with Omniverse Replicator. State co-authored the 2021 Isaac Gym paper on GPU-based physics simulation for robot learning, the 2023 Orbit paper on the framework Isaac Lab grew out of, and the 2025 Isaac Lab technical report. Before NVIDIA, State founded TransGaming Inc. and spent 15 years on games and rendering technologies.145678
Work
NVIDIA Isaac LabOpen-source code
Leads the NVIDIA team building Isaac Lab, according to NVIDIA's developer blog; co-author of the Isaac Lab technical report (arXiv, November 2025) and listed under Acknowledgements in the BSD-3-Clause repository's CONTRIBUTORS file.1798
Isaac Gym and Orbit (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of "Isaac Gym: High Performance GPU-Based Physics Simulation For Robot Learning" (2021) and "Orbit: A Unified Simulation Framework for Interactive Robot Learning Environments" (2023); the Isaac Lab README says Isaac Lab development started from Orbit.568
Newton physics engine (external site: developer.nvidia.com)Open-source code
Co-wrote, with Spencer Huang and Miles Macklin, NVIDIA's March 2025 developer blog post announcing Newton, an open-source physics engine for robotics simulation.31
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Founder, TransGaming Inc.4
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