AUTONOMOUS 2026
Shayegan Omidshafiei
Chief Scientist
FIELDAI
With over a decade of autonomous robotics and machine learning experience, Dr. Shayegan Omidshafiei is leading FieldAI’s AI and Science efforts. His focus is building Field Foundation Models™ alongside broader cutting-edge AI/ML models that can adapt to unforeseen challenges in real-world deployment. Dr. Omidshafiei has a rare background that combines field robotics with the most cutting edge AI advancements. Prior to FieldAI, he was a leading Research Scientist at Google and DeepMind for over 5 years, focused on training and evaluation of large-scale AI models, co-leading several major research efforts on single and multi-agent deep reinforcement learning and sequential decision-making. Dr. Omidshafiei earned his PhD and SM from MIT, where he originally met and worked closely with Dr. Agha for years, specializing in robotics and autonomous systems.
Their session
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Autonomy in the Wild
Robots dropped onto a site they have never seen, no map, no GPS, that just work. The foundation models putting machines to work in the places the rest of autonomy avoids: construction, energy, mining, and the open field.