Pulkit Agrawal

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Pulkit Agrawal is an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and an affiliate member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). His research interests span robotics, deep learning, computer vision and reinforcement learning. Agrawal’s overarching goal is to build machines that can automatically and continuously learn about their environment to reach what humans consider common sense. Agrawal earned his BS from IIT Kanpur and was awarded the Director’s Gold Medal. He earned his PhD from UC Berkeley and co-founded SafelyYou Inc. His work has appeared in MIT Technology Review, Quanta, and New Scientist. He is a recipient of Sony Faculty Research Award, Signatures Fellow Award, Fulbright Science and Technology Award, Goldman Sachs Global Leadership Award, OPJEMS and Sridhar Memorial Prize, among others. Agrawal holds the equivalent of a BA in Indian classical music and occasionally performs.

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