Alexander Amini

Alexander Amini

Postdoctoral Associate

Alexander Amini is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), with Prof. Daniela Rus. He completed his PhD (2022), Master of Science (2018), and Bachelor of Science (2017) in Computer Science at MIT, with a minor in Mathematics.

Amini leads research to develop the science and engineering of autonomy and its applications to safe decision making for autonomous agents. He aims to create a world with adaptive autonomous agents capable of learning to interact in complex, uncertain, and extreme scenarios, supporting people with cognitive and physical tasks. His work has spanned learning end-to-end control (i.e., perception-to-actuation) of autonomous systems, formulating confidence of neural networks, mathematical modeling of human mobility, as well as building complex inertial refinement systems.

In addition to research, Amini is a lead organizer and lecturer for MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning, MIT's introductory course on deep learning algorithms and their applications. 

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Last updated Aug 25 '22

Research Areas

AI & ML
Robotics

Impact Areas

Big Data
Transportation

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Publications

Amini, Alexander and Schwarting, Wilko and Rosman, Guy and Araki, Brandon and Karaman, Sertac and Rus, Daniela
Variational Autoencoder for End-to-End Control of Autonomous Driving with Novelty Detection and Training De-biasing
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
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Alexander Amini and Liam Paull and Thomas Balch and Sertac Karaman and Daniela Rus
Learning Steering Bounds for Parallel Autonomous Systems
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018
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Amini, Alexander and Soleimany, Ava and Karaman, Sertac and Rus, Daniela
Spatial Uncertainty Sampling for End-to-End Control Systems
NIPS Bayesian Deep Learning Workshop, 2017
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Amini, Alexander and Kung, Kevin and Kang, Chaogui and Sobolevsky, Stanislav and Ratti, Carlo
The impact of social segregation on human mobility in developing and industrialized regions
EPJ Data Science, 2014
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Amini, Alexander Andre
System and method for motion analysis and feedback with ongoing dynamic training orientation determination
US Patent App. 13/183,306
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Amini, Alexander and Kung, Kevin and Kang, Chaogui and Sobolevsky, Stanislav and Ratti, Carlo
The differing tribal and infrastructural influences on mobility in developing and industrialized regions
Mobile phone data for development-analysis of mobile phone datasets for the development of Ivory Coast, 2013
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Amini, Alexander and Horn, Berthold and Edelman, Alan
Accelerated Convolutions for Efficient Multi-Scale Time to Contact Computation in Julia
arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.08825, 2016
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Yoshimura, Yuji and Amini, Alexander and Sobolevsky, Stanislav and Blat, Josep and Ratti, Carlo
Analysis of pedestrian behaviors through non-invasive Bluetooth monitoring
Applied geography, 2017
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Yoshimura, Yuji and Amini, Alexander and Sobolevsky, Stanislav and Blat, Josep and Ratti, Carlo
Analysis of Customers’ Spatial Distribution Through Transaction Datasets
Transactions on Large-Scale Data-and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXVII, 2016
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Pei, Tao and Sobolevsky, Stanislav and Ratti, Carlo and Amini, Alexander and Zhou, Chenghu
Uncovering the directional heterogeneity of an aggregated mobile phone network
Transactions in GIS, 2014
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Projects

Groups

UROP/SuperUROP

If you're interested in a UROP or SuperUROP position, please send a resume and brief cover note explaining your interest n the project to amini@mit.edu