Dheeraj Pamnani

“Robotics engineer who helped bootstrap Meta’s humanoid robotics effort, building simulation training and deployment infrastructure for vision-language-action (VLA) models. Evaluated multiple physics backends (Bullet, MuJoCo, Isaac, internal) to minimize sim-to-real gap and addressed control-loop frequency mismatches via sequence optimization/MPC-like approaches and trajectory-output modifications. Published research that contributed a new addition to ROS 2 and has built ROS2 node stacks spanning control, perception, teleop, tactile sensing, and imaging.”

“Built and deployed a healthcare NLP application that used an LLM-style physician interface feeding a random forest model to predict treatment plans for hard-to-triage patient subgroups, backed by a Databricks medallion pipeline and heavy feature engineering to address missing/low-integrity data across ~50K patients. Also delivered an earlier Microsoft AI Builder automation that improved transportation bill payment workflows by training non-technical payroll/procurement teams to use automated outstanding-payables reporting.”