Kai Ma

Welcome to my website!

I’m a third-year student at the University of Waterloo, studying Mechatronics Engineering (+ AI option). Some things I’ve worked on:

• Multi-sensor fusion for autonomous vehicles at NVIDIA
• Industrial robotics at Polymath Robotics
• MoE perception models for robot picking with FLAIROP
• Medical deep learning on the COVID-Net project
• Building a self-driving car from the ground up at WATonomous

I’m primarily interested in robotics, both in building useful products/tools and doing research to push the state-of-the-art. My current research interests are self-supervised learning and effective world modeling. You can see what I’ve been learning and what I’ve been up to by visiting my collection of 1000+ notes.

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