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Eric Kolve

Eric Kolve is a software engineer and AI researcher whose projects build simulated spaces for embodied agents. After software roles at Classmates, AdReady and Two Sigma, he joined AI2 and coauthored AI2-THOR. His research included RoboTHOR, ManipulaTHOR, Iconary and ProcTHOR; the ProcTHOR paper won the NeurIPS 2022 Outstanding Paper Award. He served as DexCare's director of data science and later joined Vercept as a founding engineer. Since February 2026, he is a member of technical staff at Anthropic.

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Timeline

  1. 1999–2015

    Classmates, AdReady and Two Sigma

    At Classmates, he starts as a principal software engineer in January 1999. He becomes a principal engineer and co-founder at AdReady in June 2006. From October 2012 to March 2015, he works as a software engineer at Two Sigma.

  2. 2015–2022

    AI2 and AI2-THOR

    At AI2, he starts as a principal software engineer in April 2015 and becomes an engineering manager in January 2020, leaving in April 2022. The 2017 AI2-THOR paper, which he coauthors, presents an interactive 3D environment for visual AI research where agents navigate indoor scenes and interact with objects.

  3. 2020

    RoboTHOR simulation platform

    In 2020, he coauthors RoboTHOR, a framework of simulated environments paired with physical counterparts to study simulation-to-real transfer in embodied AI.

  4. 2021

    ManipulaTHOR and Iconary

    In 2021, he coauthors ManipulaTHOR, a framework for object manipulation built on the physics-enabled AI2-THOR environment. The 2021 Iconary paper, which he coauthors, is a collaborative drawing-and-guessing game that tests multimodal communication through drawings and text.

  5. 2022

    A NeurIPS Outstanding Paper

    In 2022, he coauthors ProcTHOR, a framework for procedural generation of embodied AI environments that uses a sample of 10,000 generated houses to train and evaluate agents on navigation, interaction and manipulation tasks. The paper wins the NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award.

  6. May 2022–March 2025

    Data science at DexCare

    At DexCare, he becomes director of data science and data engineering in May 2022. In March 2023, he is its director of data science.

  7. March 2025–February 2026

    Founding engineer at Vercept

    In March 2025, he joins Vercept as a founding engineer and holds the role through February 2026.

  8. Since February 2026

    Technical staff at Anthropic

    Since February 2026, he is a member of technical staff at Anthropic.

Career

  1. Since 2026AnthropicMember of technical staff
  2. From 2025VerceptFounding engineer
  3. From 2023DexCareDirector of data science
  4. 2015–2020Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Principal software engineer, Engineering manager
  5. 2012–2015Two SigmaSoftware engineer
  6. 2006–2012AdReadyPrincipal engineer, Co-founder
  7. 1999–2006ClassmatesPrincipal software engineer

From the biography.

  1. 22 of 133 people shaping AI with a former OpenAI role now work at AnthropicIncludes Anthropic. Our estimates of where OpenAI recruits came from and where 133 people with former OpenAI roles work now, including the companies and labs they founded.
  2. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Anthropic. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  3. Companies supply the most prior-work hires at 7 of the 9 frontier AI labsIncludes Anthropic. Our estimates of the organizations where 550 people worked directly before joining 9 frontier AI labs across 620 career transitions, comparing the main feeder organizations per lab.
  4. Of 943 people shaping AI who worked at Google, 446 work there nowIncludes Anthropic. Our estimates of where the 943 people shaping AI who worked at Google and Google DeepMind work now: 446 at Google and 452 across 278 other organizations.

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Sources and credits

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  1. Eric Kolve's email & phone number - Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic | SignalHire signalhire.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. AI2-THOR: An Interactive 3D Environment for Visual AI arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. RoboTHOR: An Open Simulation-to-Real Embodied AI Platform arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. ManipulaTHOR: A Framework for Visual Object Manipulation arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. Iconary: A Pictionary-Based Game for Testing Multimodal Communication with Drawings and Text aclanthology.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. 🏘️ ProcTHOR: Large-Scale Embodied AI Using Procedural Generation proceedings.neurips.cc. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. AI2 Newsletter | December 2022 allenai.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  8. Eric Kolve — Xyonix, AI Consulting & Custom Solutions xyonix.com. Checked 22 October 2026.