Deepak Pathak
Carnegie Mellon professor known for curiosity-driven reinforcement learning and learned legged and dexterous control, and co-founder of Skild AI.
Carnegie Mellon University · United States
- Rank
- #131
- Score
- 39.3
- Citations
- 13,272
- h-index
- 34
- Robotics papers 2023–2025
- 5
Source: OpenAlex author record, as of 2026-10-19. How we rank
About
Deepak Pathak's work on curiosity-driven exploration showed how agents can learn without external rewards, and RMA (Rapid Motor Adaptation) let legged robots adapt to new terrain in real time. He co-founded Skild AI to build general-purpose robot foundation models.
Representative work
Selected highly cited papers, linked to their publisher or arXiv versions:
- Curiosity-Driven Exploration by Self-Supervised Prediction (2017)
- RMA: Rapid Motor Adaptation for Legged Robots (2021)
- Context Encoders: Feature Learning by Inpainting (2016)
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Who is Deepak Pathak?
Deepak Pathak is a Carnegie Mellon professor known for curiosity-driven reinforcement learning and learned legged and dexterous control, and co-founder of Skild AI.