Rogerio Bonatti

About

I am a Senior Researcher in the Applied Sciences Group (ASG) (opens in new tab) at Microsoft, where I develop AI-based experiences for the new Windows Copilot (opens in new tab). I focus on user understanding, proactive recommendations, and decision-making using multi-modal foundation models. In particular, I create generative machine learning algorithms that take actions using language and vision.

Much of my past work before joining ASG was in the robotics space, where I deployed autonomous systems in manipulators, virtual and real embodied agents (opens in new tab), all the way to flying robots (opens in new tab).

I received my PhD in Robotics (opens in new tab) from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science (opens in new tab), and interned at Microsoft (opens in new tab) and Facebook AI Research (opens in new tab).

My work has been awarded with a Best Student Paper Finalist Nomination (IROS 2020 (opens in new tab)), a Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant (opens in new tab), a Siebel Scholarship (opens in new tab) and a Swartz Entrepreneurship Fellowship (opens in new tab). Before CMU I studied Mechatronics Engineering at the University of São Paulo, Brazil and also had an amazing experience in management consulting at McKinsey & Co. (opens in new tab).