Hi, I'm Rae Jeong.

I am currently the CEO and co-founder of Maneva.

I previously spent time at Google DeepMind working as a Research Engineer focusing on robot learning and AI research. I graduated from Mechatronics Engineering program at the University of Waterloo.

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Selected Publications

Beyond Pick-and-Place: Tackling Robotic Stacking of Diverse Shapes

Alex X. Lee, Coline Devin, Yuxiang Zhou, Thomas Lampe, Konstantinos Bousmalis, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Arunkumar Byravan, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Nimrod Gileadi, David Khosid, Claudio Fantacci, Jose Enrique Chen, Akhil Raju, Rae Jeong, Michael Neunert, Antoine Laurens, Stefano Saliceti, Federico Casarini, Martin Riedmiller, Raia Hadsell, Francesco Nori.

In the proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference on Robot Learning, 2021.

Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Suboptimal Experts

Rae Jeong, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Jackie Kay, Daniel Zheng, Yuxiang Zhou, Alexandre Galashov, Nicolas Heess, Francesco Nori

In the proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference on Robot Learning, 2020.

Self-Supervised Sim-to-Real Adaptation for Visual Robotic Manipulation

Rae Jeong, Yusuf Aytar, David Khosid, Yuxiang Zhou, Jackie Kay, Thomas Lampe, Konstantinos Bousmalis, Francesco Nori

In the proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

Scaling data-driven robotics with reward sketching and batch reinforcement learning

Serkan Cabi, Sergio Gómez Colmenarejo, Alexander Novikov, Ksenia Konyushkova, Scott Reed, Rae Jeong, Konrad Zolna, Yusuf Aytar, David Budden, Mel Vecerik, Oleg Sushkov, David Barker, Jonathan Scholz, Misha Denil, Nando de Freitas, Ziyu Wang

In the proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems 2020.