Laura Graesser

Researcher, Google DeepMind

Joined

September 2019

Names

Laura Graesser (Preferred)

Emails

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****@nyu.edu

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Google DeepMind (google.com)

2023 – Present

Researcher

Google (google.com)

2018 – 2023

MS student

New York University (nyu.edu)

2015 – 2018

Undergrad student

University of Oxford (ox.ac.uk)

2007 – 2010

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Kyunghyun Cho

2018 – 2019

Coauthor

Douwe Kiela

2018 – 2019

Coworker

Navdeep Jaitly

2018 – 2019

Coauthor

Milan Cvitkovic

2018 – 2019

Coauthor

Wah Loon Keng

2016 – 2019

Expertise

Reinforcement learning

2018 – Present

Robot learning

2018 – Present

Publications

SAS-Prompt: Large Language Models as Numerical Optimizers for Robot Self-Improvement
Heni Ben Amor, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, David B D'Ambrosio, Saminda Wishwajith Abeyruwan, Alex Bewley, Yifan Zhou, Kamalesh Kalirathinam, Swaroop Mishra, Pannag R Sanketi
- ICRA 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
David B D'Ambrosio, Saminda Wishwajith Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, Heni Ben Amor, Alex Bewley, Barney Reed, Krista Reymann, Leila Takayama, Yuval Tassa, Krzysztof Marcin Choromanski, Erwin Coumans, Deepali Jain, Navdeep Jaitly, Natasha Jaques, Satoshi Kataoka, Yuheng Kuang, Nevena Lazic, Reza Mahjourian, Sherry Moore et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- WRL@ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Robotic Table Tennis: A Case Study into a High Speed Learning System
David B. D'Ambrosio, Navdeep Jaitly, Vikas Sindhwani, Ken Oslund, Peng Xu, Nevena Lazic, Anish Shankar, Tianli Ding, Jonathan Abelian, Erwin Coumans, Gus Kouretas, Thinh Nguyen, Justin Boyd, Atil Iscen, Reza Mahjourian, Vincent Vanhoucke, Alex Bewley, Yuheng Kuang, Michael Ahn, Deepali Jain et al. (14 additional authors not shown)
- Robotics: Science and Systems 2023
- Readers: Everyone
i-Sim2Real: Reinforcement Learning of Robotic Policies in Tight Human-Robot Interaction Loops
Saminda Wishwajith Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, David B D'Ambrosio, Avi Singh, Anish Shankar, Alex Bewley, Deepali Jain, Krzysztof Marcin Choromanski, Pannag R Sanketi
- Published: 10 Sept 2022, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- CoRL 2022 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Learning High Speed Precision Table Tennis on a Physical Robot
Tianli Ding, Laura Graesser, Saminda Abeyruwan, David B. D'Ambrosio, Anish Shankar, Pierre Sermanet, Pannag R. Sanketi, Corey Lynch
- 2022 (modified: 31 Mar 2023)
- IROS 2022
- Readers: Everyone
The State of Sparse Training in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Laura Graesser, Utku Evci, Erich Elsen, Pablo Samuel Castro
- 2022 (modified: 14 Apr 2023)
- ICML 2022
- Readers: Everyone
i-Sim2Real: Reinforcement Learning of Robotic Policies in Tight Human-Robot Interaction Loops
Saminda Wishwajith Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, David B. D'Ambrosio, Avi Singh, Anish Shankar, Alex Bewley, Deepali Jain, Krzysztof Marcin Choromanski, Pannag R. Sanketi
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- CoRL 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Robotic Table Tennis with Model-Free Reinforcement Learning
Wenbo Gao, Laura Graesser, Krzysztof Choromanski, Xingyou Song, Nevena Lazic, Pannag Sanketi, Vikas Sindhwani, Navdeep Jaitly
- 2020 (modified: 26 Feb 2022)
- IROS 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Emergent Linguistic Phenomena in Multi-Agent Communication Games
Laura Graesser, Kyunghyun Cho, Douwe Kiela
- 2019 (modified: 18 Feb 2022)
- EMNLP/IJCNLP (1) 2019
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors

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