Hey, I'm Simar!
I'm a third year PhD student at Georgia Tech advised by Judy Hoffman and Danfei Xu. I also did my undergrad and masters at GT (2018-2022). I'm currently a research intern at Physical Intelligence (Feb 2025)!
My research focuses on computer vision and robotics. I aim to develop skillful robots that adapt to ever changing environments. I develop algorithms for generalization and adaptation which leverage scalable data sources, most recently, egocentric human videos.
Email: skareer[at]gatech[dot]edu
News
[Jan 2025] I'll be presenting EgoMimic at ICRA 2025 in ATL!
[Nov 2024] Gave an invited talk for the Google Deepmind reading group
[Jan 2024] We're Not Using Videos Effectively was accepted to TMLR!
[Jan 2023] ViNL was accepted to ICRA and won a best paper award at the CoRL Agile Robotics Workshop! It also received media coverage from Georgia Tech, Tech Explorer and Inceptive Mind!
Research
[ICRA 2025] EgoMimic: Scaling Imitation Learning via Egocentric Video
Simar Kareer, Dhruv Patel, Ryan Punamiya, Pranay Mathur, Shuo Cheng, Chen Wang, Judy Hoffman, Danfei Xu
[TMLR 2024] We're Not Using Videos Effectively: An Updated Domain Adaptive Video Segmentation Baseline
Simar Kareer, Vivek Vijaykumar, Harsh Maheshwari, Prithvi Chattopadhyay, Judy Hoffman, Viraj Prabhu
[ICRA 2023] ViNL: Visual Navigation and Locomotion Over Obstacles
Simar Kareer, Naoki Yokoyama, Dhruv Batra, Sehoon Ha, Joanne Truong
