Siddharth Patki

Principal Researcher, NVIDIA
Robotics & AI
San Jose, CA

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About

I am a Principal Researcher at NVIDIA, working on foundation models for dextrous manipulation. Previously, I was a Senior Research Scientist at General Motors, a Research Scientist at Meta, and an Applied Scientist at Amazon. I received my PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester in 2023, advised by Prof. Thomas Howard, where my research focused on language understanding and perception for robots operating in dynamic environments. Outside of research, I enjoy watercolor painting and playing Badminton.

Updates

• May 18, 2026 Started as Principal Researcher at NVIDIA.
• Feb 16, 2026 Started as Senior Research Scientist at General Motors, working on Robotics and AI.
• Oct 07, 2024 Started as Research Scientist on the GenAI team at Meta.
• Jun 17, 2024 Organized workshop on Object-Centric Representations for Robotics at CVPR 2024.
• Aug 17, 2023 Defended my PhD!
• Apr 24, 2023 Started as Postdoctoral Researcher in the Embodied AI group at FAIR Meta.
• Oct 17, 2022 Started as Applied Scientist in the Robotics AI division at Amazon.
• Jul 28, 2021 Defended my thesis proposal. Planning for 2023 graduation.
• Jun 01, 2017 Started PhD program at the University of Rochester.
• Mar 27, 2017 Awarded Dean's Fellowship for outstanding academic record and strong potential for graduate study.
• Mar 10, 2016 Nominated as Scholar at the New York State Center of Excellence in Data Science.