Ryan Punamiya

01 / About

Hi I'm Ryan! I'm a research scientist at the NVIDIA GEAR Lab and an incoming PhD student at Stanford University. I completed my undergrad at Georgia Tech, where I was advised by Prof. Danfei Xu and Prof. Judy Hoffman. I am currently interested in studying scalable approaches for generalization in large robot foundation models. Most recently, I have been working on enabling different types of transfer from egocentric human data.

02 / News

July 2026 EgoVerse was presented at RSS 2026.

June 2026 I started full-time as a Research Scientist at the NVIDIA GEAR Lab.

Mar 2026 We publicly released EgoVerse, our large-scale egocentric human dataset for robot learning from around the world.

Feb 2026 I started my research internship at the NVIDIA GEAR Lab.

Jan 2026 I was fortunate to have received Runners Up for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award.

Sept 2025 Our work, EgoBridge was accepted to NeurIPS 2025 and was nominated for Best Paper Finalist at the H2R Workshop at CoRL 2025.

Sept 2025 Received my third President's Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) for my research in robotics.

Aug 2025 We publicly released EMMA, our recent endeavour in scaling mobile manipulation through egocentric human video.

Feb 2025 Our work, EgoMimic, was showcased in a Meta AI blog post highlighting its role in embodied AI with Project Aria and Ego4D.

Oct 2024 Our paper, EgoMimic was showcased at the LFDM and X-Embodiment Workshops at CoRL 2024.

03 / Work

NVIDIA GEAR Lab

Research Scientist June 2026 – Present

Research Intern Feb 2026 – June 2026

04 / Education

Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, USA

B.S. in Computer Science Aug 2022 – Dec 2025

GPA: 4.0/4.0
Advisors: Danfei Xu, Judy Hoffman

05 / Publications

( indicates equal contribution )*

2026

EgoVerse: An Egocentric Human Dataset for Robot Learning from Around the World

Ryan Punamiya*, Simar Kareer*, Zeyi Liu, Josh Citron, Ri-Zhao Qiu, Xiongyi Cai, Alexey Gavryushin, Jiaqi Chen, Davide Liconti, Lawrence Y. Zhu, Patcharapong Aphiwetsa, Baoyu Li, Aniketh Cheluva, Pranav Kuppili, Yangcen Liu, Dhruv Patel, Aidan Gao, Hye-Young Chung, Ryan Co, Renee Zbizika, Jeff Jinyun Liu, Xiaomeng Xu, Haoyu Xiong, Geng Chen, Sebastiano Oliani, Chenyu Yang, Xi Wang, James Fort, Richard Newcombe, Josh Gao, Jason Chong, Garrett Matsuda, Aseem Doriwala, Marc Pollefeys, Robert Katzschmann, Xiaolong Wang, Shuran Song, Judy Hoffman, Danfei Xu

RSS 2026

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