Ruta Desai

RESEARCH SCIENTIST | REDMOND, UNITED STATES

Ruta Desai is a Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs Research in Redmond. At Reality Labs, her research focuses on leveraging representation learning, planning, and reinforcement learning techniques — combined with an embodied AI framing — for developing Augmented Reality (AR) assistance models that can extend their users' capabilities. Prior to joining Meta, she obtained a PhD at the Carnegie Mellon University -- where she focused on human-AI collaborative and mixed-initiative systems for designing and programming robots.

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Computer Vision

Robotics

Ruta's Publications

October 31, 2024

ROBOTICS

PARTNR: A Benchmark for Planning and Reasoning in Embodied Multi-agent Tasks

Matthew Chang, Gunjan Chhablani, Alexander William Clegg, Mikael Dallaire Cote, Ruta Desai, Michal Hlavac, Vladimir Karashchuk, Jacob Krantz, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Priyam Parashar, Siddharth Patki, Ishita Prasad, Xavi Puig, Akshara Rai, Ram Ramrakhya, Daniel Tran, Joanne Truong, John Turner, Eric Undersander, Jimmy Yang

October 31, 2024

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March 12, 2024

ROBOTICS

Habitat 3.0: A Co-Habitat for Humans, Avatars and Robots

Xavi Puig, Eric Undersander, Andrew Szot, Mikael Dallaire Cote, Jimmy Yang, Ruslan Partsey, Ruta Desai, Alexander William Clegg, Tiffany Min, Vladimír Vondruš, Theo Gervet, Vincent-Pierre Berges, Oleksandr Maksymets, Zsolt Kira, Mrinal Kalakrishnan, Jitendra Malik, Devendra Singh Chaplot, Unnat Jain, Dhruv Batra, Akshara Rai, Roozbeh Mottaghi