Omar Rayyan

orayyan [at] cs.ucla [dot] edu

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Research

I am a first-year PhD student at UCLA affiliated with the Robot Intelligence Lab (URIL). I do research on robot learning with a focus on imitation learning and sim2real. My goal is to build generally intelligent robots for everyday use.

Previously, I did my undergrad at NYU, where I was advised by Lerrel Pinto and Animesh Garg. In previous summers, I interned at Google.

Updates

• Received NYU's Alfred H. Bloom Scholarship, awarded to one student.
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• Won comma.ai's controls challenge with an RL solution.
• Started doing research at NYU's CILVR lab.
• 3rd place at IEEExtreme compeition across the region.

Selected Articles and Software

COBALT: Crowdsourcing Robot Learning via Cloud-Based Teleoperation Ayush Agarwal, Ansh Gandhi, Jeremy A. Collins, Omar Rayyan, Aryan Sarswat, Ranjani Koushik, Kaavya Menon, Masoud Moghani, Ajay Mandlekar, Animesh Garg In Submission [paper] [blog]

MuJoCo AR Quick Teleoperation for Simulations and Real Robots [code]

Open-Vocab Beyond Pick and Place With guidance from Mahi Shafiullah [code]

RCM-Constrained Manipulator Trajectory Tracking Using Differential Kinematics Control Omar Rayyan*, Vinicius Goncalves, Nikolaos Evangeliou, Anthony Tzes [paper] [code]