David Paulius

A man wearing glasses stands outdoors, with mountains softly blurred in the background.

Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

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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.

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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