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David Paulius

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Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Contact

Email

Office

182F Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering

Areas of Interest

  • Robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Hierarchical Planning and Decision-making
  • Foundation Models for Robotics
  • Natural Language for Robotics

David (dah-veed) is a robotics and AI researcher from St. Kitts and Nevis focusing on decision-making for general-purpose robotics. His work explores the use of unstructured but widely available sources of knowledge, classical planning and AI search, learning from demonstration, and foundation models to realize robot autonomy.

Websites

Google Scholar
Ditto Lab

Education

  • Ph.D. University of South Florida, Computer Science and Engineering, 2020
  • B.Sc., University of the Virgin Islands, Computer Science, 2014
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame, September-December, 2026
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate (Intelligent Robot Lab), Brown University, 2021-2025
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Technische Universität München, 2020-2021