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Jacob Zietek

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I'm currently living in Houston and working on Embodied AI at Persona AI as one of the founding team members (we're hiring!). I specifically work on creating robust manipulation policies for our multi-purpose humanoid, and contribute to any other deep learning-related work that might pop up :) I was previously working on computer vision applications as one of the first ML hires at Armada AI, and have done internships with Amazon (healthcare NLP before ChatGPT), Shield AI (training fighter jet AI), PNNL (benchmarking sparse tensor algorithms), and BNL (HPC for covid research). I graduated from Purdue CS in December 2023. My robotics undergraduate research was under Professor Ahmed Qureshi at CoRAL Lab where I worked on adding gaze control to visuolinguomotor policies and did some higher level planning work for a robot tour guide of Purdue. Longer informal bio. I love taking risks and non-linear paths in life. AI and robots will eventually replace humans in boring and dangerous tasks. Th

Jacob Zietek About me Last updated: March 2026 I'm currently living in Houston and working on Embodied AI at Persona AI as --> we're hiring! ). Feel free to shoot me an email if you want to work on XYZ. --> I specifically work on creating robust manipulation policies for our multi-purpose humanoid, and contribute to any other deep learning-related work that might pop up :) --> I'm currently an Engineering Fellow at Andreeseen Horowitz's American Dynamism fund ( is this american dynamism? ). I spend about half my time investing in robots + manufacturing, and the other half working on various ro

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