Alperen Degirmenci

Alperen Degirmenci is a staff research engineer at NVIDIA's Seattle Robotics Lab, working on world action models, agentic robotics, and real-time perception. Prior to joining SRL, Alperen was a tech lead in autonomous driving at NVIDIA, building and scaling learning-based autonomy at the intersection of research and product. Alperen earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Harvard University, and his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University.
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Robotics

The Machines that Make the Machines

How we taught robots to assemble GB300 tester trays and what it taught us about robot learning, mechanical intelligence, and good old-fashioned engineering The... 27 MIN READ