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Ashay Athalye

email: [email protected]
twitter: @ashayathalye
github: @ashayathalye
google scholar: here

Hi!

I'm an AI researcher and software engineer based in San Francisco. Previously, I was a researcher at Boston Dynamics AI Institute. My primary interests are in AI and robotics, and my secondary interests are in economics and education. In my spare time, I direct open education efforts at the nonprofit SOUL.

I completed my S.B. (EECS, Economics, MechE) and M.Eng. at MIT. During my studies, I interned at NASA JPL, Raytheon BBN, Cruise, Microsoft Research, and Waymo. Aside from work, I love to take photos, play music, and do outdoor sports.

Publications:

  1. Ashay Athalye*, Nishanth Kumar*, Tom Silver, Yichao Liang, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling. Predicate Invention from Pixels via Pretrained Vision-Language Models. Workshop on Planning in the Era of LLMs (LM4Plan) @ AAAI 2025.
  2. Tom Silver, Ashay Athalye, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling. Learning Neuro-Symbolic Skills for Bilevel Planning. CoRL 2022.