Biography

Jorge Mendez-Mendez is an assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Stony Brook University. Before joining Stony Brook, he was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT CSAIL. He obtained his PhD (2022) and MSE (2018) from the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, and his Bachelor's degree (2016) in electronics engineering from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Venezuela. His research focuses on creating versatile, intelligent, embodied agents that accumulate knowledge over their lifetimes, leveraging techniques from transfer and multitask learning, modularity and compositionality, reinforcement learning, and task and motion planning. His work has been recognized with an MIT-IBM Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship, a third place prize of the Two Sigma Ph.D. Diversity Fellowship, and a Best Paper Award in the Lifelong Machine Learning Workshop (ICML).