# David Kim

> David is a final-year PhD student whose work on model-based reinforcement learning has achieved state-of-the-art results in robotic manipulation tasks. His open-source contributions have made him well-known in the robotics ML community.

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**Institution:** UC Berkeley
**Field:** Machine Learning
**Advisor:** Dr. Pieter Abbeel
**Thesis:** Sample-efficient reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation via world models
**Publications:** 12

## Skills

- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- Reinforcement Learning
- Computer Vision
- Distributed Systems
- C++

## Industry transition signals

- Interned at Google DeepMind
- Multiple offers from AI labs
- Open-source project with 5K+ GitHub stars

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