Murtaza Dalal

Murtaza Dalal is a Senior Robotics Machine Learning Engineer at Tesla since February 2025, specializing in scaling AI for robotics. Prior to this role, Murtaza completed a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, where also served as a Robotics PhD Student from June 2020 to January 2025. In addition, Murtaza worked as a Senior Robotics Engineer at Apple from May 2024 to December 2024, focusing on scaling AI models and leading research on training generalist agents for robotic manipulation. Experience includes a research internship at NVIDIA in 2022, where a project on imitating Task and Motion Planners (TAMP) with Transformers was led, and recognition as one of 25 Accel Scholars during the tenure at Accel from August 2019 to August 2020. Murtaza holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.