UIUC PhD Shivansh Patel Joins Tesla's Optimus Team After Defending Thesis
YunzhuLiYZ · x · 2026-09-27
Shivansh Patel has defended his CS PhD at UIUC and joined Tesla AI to work on Optimus. His research spanned video prediction and simulation for robot learning, advised by Lana Lazebnik and Yunzhu Li, who congratulated him publicly.
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