Michael Murray

About

I’m a research scientist at Microsoft Research (MSR) in the Physically Embodied AI and Robotics group. My research interests span robotics, computer vision, machine learning, and human-robot interaction. I’m particularly interested in studying foundation models for robotics, human-in-the-loop robot learning, and reinforcement learning.

I received my Ph.D. from the University of Washington where I worked in the Human Centered Robotics Lab. I was advised by Maya Cakmak and I also work closely with Abhishek Gupta. During grad school, I received an Amazon Science fellowship, and I have worked closely with Amazon Robotics through the UW-Amazon Science Hub. I also spent a summer at the NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab led by Dieter Fox.

Before grad school, I was a software engineer at Amazon where I worked on computer vision for autonomous drone delivery. I also co-founded a YCombinator backed startup.

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