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Researcher

Dhruv Batra

Dhruv Batra is an AI researcher whose work spans computer vision, vision-and-language research, embodied AI, and computer-use agents. He earned a B.Tech. at the Institute of Technology, Benaras Hindu University, then completed an M.S. and Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon before faculty roles at TTIC, Virginia Tech, and Georgia Tech. He received the 2019 PECASE for explainable AI, and his 2023 paper on blind navigation agents won an ICLR Outstanding Paper Award. His Visual Question Answering work received the 2025 PAMI Mark Everingham Prize, and he co-founded Yutori in 2025. After leading Meta FAIR's Embodied AI group, he serves as Yutori's Chief Scientist on Navigator computer-use models.

Timeline

  1. Before 2007

    An undergraduate start in India

    Before Carnegie Mellon, he earned a B.Tech. from the Institute of Technology, Benaras Hindu University.

  2. 2007–2010

    Graduate work at Carnegie Mellon

    At Carnegie Mellon, he earned an M.S. in 2007 and a Ph.D. in 2010 under Tsuhan Chen.

  3. 2010–2012

    Research faculty at TTIC

    He served as a research assistant professor at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC).

  4. 2013–2016

    Leading a perception group

    At Virginia Tech, he served as an assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering and led the VT Machine Learning & Perception group.

  5. 2019

    An award for explainable AI

    He received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2019 while serving as an assistant professor at Georgia Tech. The award recognized his work on explainable AI and neural-network interpretability.

  6. 2023

    Maps in blind navigation

    The coauthored paper Emergence of Maps in the Memories of Blind Navigation Agents received an ICLR 2023 Outstanding Paper Award. It studies representations in artificial blind navigating agents and how these may support effective navigation.

  7. 2025

    A prize and a new venture

    He co-founded Yutori with Abhishek Das and Devi Parikh to build AI assistants for everyday digital tasks. His Visual Question Answering work received the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize at ICCV 2025 for stimulating a new strand of vision-and-language research.

  8. As of October 2026

    Leading computer-use models

    He is Yutori's co-founder and chief scientist after leading Meta FAIR's Embodied AI group as a senior director. His Meta teams built Habitat, and his Yutori work includes the Navigator family of computer-use models. In a May 2026 update, Navigator n1.5 combined user-interface actions with JavaScript execution.

Sources and credits

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  1. Dhruv Batra -- About Me users.ece.cmu.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Dhruv Batra | Georgia Tech AI ai.gatech.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. IC's Dhruv Batra Named PECASE Winner, One of Three at Georgia Tech cc.gatech.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Dhruv Batra dhruvbatra.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Announcing the ICLR 2023 Outstanding Paper Award Recipients blog.iclr.cc. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. Announcing Yutori's mission and Seed funding round yutori.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. Company - Yutori - Browser-use and computer-use AI agents yutori.com. Checked 14 October 2026.