Hi, I'm Nick Rhinehart, an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto.

• Primary Appointment: The Institute for Aerospace Studies.
• Cross Appointment: The Department of Computer Science.
• Faculty Affiliate: The Robotics Institute.

I lead the Learning, Embodied Autonomy, and Forecasting (LEAF) lab. We aim to develop broadly useful autonomous systems that safely operate in complex environments by advancing the algorithmic foundations of robot learning. Our research develops efficient principled algorithms with methods from model-based and model-free reinforcement learning, imitation learning, information theory, and deep learning.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University with Kris Kitani. Previously, I was a Senior Research Scientist at Waymo Research, and a Postdoctoral Scholar with Sergey Levine in the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research group.

Interested in joining our lab? Learn more here.