Luis Guzman

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About

Hey! I'm Luis, and I'm fascinated by making robots smarter and more aware of the world around them. My work combines computer vision and reinforcement learning to help machines understand and interact with their surroundings. When I'm not working on making AI more capable, you can probably find me creating new music or hiking and skiing around Seattle.

Education

2021
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M.S. Robotics

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
2020
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B.S. Applied Mathematics, Engineering, and Physics

& Computer Science Certificate University of Wisconsin - Madison

Projects & Publications

2022 IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine

Tumbling Robot Control Using Reinforcement Learning

2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Masters Thesis)

Robotic Embodiment of Human-Like Motor Skills via Reinforcement Learning

2021

Satellite Image Building Detection using U-Net Convolutional Neural Network

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Experience

2022present

Amazon Web Services

Machine Learning Engineer

At Amazon, I worked on the development of new Just Walk Out shopping algorithms by managing the ML Platform, including data mining and retention systems, ground truth ETL jobs, and training and evaluation pipelines. I built automated Step Function workflows for feature generation and evaluation of new models, and addressed scaling challenges like I/O bottlenecks and service throttling.
20202022

University of Minnesota

Graduate Research Assistant

During my master's program, I researched deep reinforcement learning methods to develop robotic learning-by-demonstration systems using PyTorch and MuJoCo virtual environments, which has since been published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
2021

Rover Robotics

Robotics Intern

Rover Robotics is a robotics startup based in Wayzata, MN, which is developing a low-cost mobile robot platform for food delivery. I created the company’s endurance testing platform by implementing autonomous vision-based navigation using OpenCV, which enabled 24-7 operation of a small fleet of mobile robots.

Talks

  • October 2024 - Just-Walk-Out Research Offsite: Continuous Sample Mining and Exploration Platform
  • May 2022 - ICRA - Robotic Embodiment of Human Like Motor Skills via Reinforcement Learning
  • November 2021 - Robots and Sensors for the Human Well-being (ROSE-HUB) IUCRC
  • November 2021 - Inside the Minnesota Robotics Institute: At the Heart of a Growing Robotics Industry
  • October 2021 - Research Seminar at HRL Laboratories
I also work on creative projects in my free time. Here are some examples of what I do for fun.