Vikash Kumar
Co-founder and CEO of Myolab.ai and CMU adjunct professor; lead creator of MyoSuite and RoboHive
- Co-founder, CEO, Myolab.ai1
- Adjunct Professor, CMU Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University1
Vikash Kumar is the co-founder and CEO of Myolab.ai and an Adjunct Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, and previously held research scientist roles at FAIR (Meta AI), Google Brain and OpenAI. Kumar's research covers embodied movement across biological, digital and electromechanical systems, using machine learning, biomechanics, robotics and optimal control. Kumar's homepage lists Kumar as lead creator of MyoSuite and RoboHive, two Apache-2.0 collections of environments simulated with the MuJoCo physics engine, and as a founding member of MuJoCo and TorchRL.123
Work
MyoSuite (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Listed by Kumar's homepage as lead creator; Kumar is an author of the MyoSuite paper (L4DC 2022) that the Apache-2.0 repository asks users to cite. MyoSuite provides musculoskeletal environments and tasks simulated with MuJoCo.12
RoboHive (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Listed by Kumar's homepage as lead creator of RoboHive, a unified framework for robot learning with MuJoCo-simulated environments exposed through the OpenAI Gym API, published under Apache-2.0 from Kumar's GitHub account.13
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