Ayush Agrawal

Ayush Agrawal is a highly skilled Senior Robotics Machine Learning Engineer at Tesla since May 2024, working with the Optimus Controls team. Prior to this role, Agrawal served as a Software Engineer II at Agility Robotics, focusing on locomotion controls for the humanoid robot Digit from January 2023 to May 2024. Agrawal's foundational experience includes a tenure as a Graduate Student Researcher at UC Berkeley College of Engineering from August 2017 to December 2022, a Graduate Student Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University from October 2015 to August 2017, and an AI Research Intern at Facebook AI during May to December 2021. In the academic realm, Agrawal also contributed as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for courses on Nonlinear Controls and Manipulation, Mobility, and Control. Agrawal holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.