Simar Kareer

Hey, I'm Simar!

I'm a second year PhD student at Georgia Tech advised by Judy Hoffman! I also did my undergrad and masters at Georgia Tech (2018-2022). Along the way I've worked with Dhruv Batra, Sehoon Ha and Jacob Abernethy.


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, from both simulation and reality.


Email: skareer[at]gatech[dot]edu

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News

[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

[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

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[ICRA 2023] ViNL: Visual Navigation and Locomotion Over Obstacles

Simar Kareer, Naoki Yokoyama, Dhruv Batra, Sehoon Ha, Joanne Truong

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[Thesis] Effect of Boosting on Adversarial Robustness

Simar Kareer, Jacob Abernethy

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Projects

Vehicle Trajectory Prediction

Deep learning approach to predict movement of neighboring vehicles

Grid Efficient Building Challenge

Optimization of heating times for school buildings

Implicit Bias Training Study

Does implicit bias training lead to more equitable policing?

Lyft Data Challenge

Ranked 3rd of 250 teams in nationwide data challenge!

Amazon Data Challenge

Ranked top 4 in machine learning competition

Hack GT6

Our event winning submission to HackGT 6!

Rodney Smith

A website honoring the late photographer Rodney Smith

Goalie Vision

VR goalie training with a real lacrosse stick!