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Rogerio Bonatti

Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI
rogeriobonatti at gmail dot com

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Biography

I'm a Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI, where I work on LLM post-training.

Previously I worked at the Applied Sciences Group (ASG), where I develop AI-based experiences for the new Windows Copilot (multi-modal foundational models, computer-using agents, proactive recommendations). I also have deep experience in robotics, where I deployed manipulators, virtual and real embodied agents, and flying robots.

I received my PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, and interned at Microsoft and Facebook AI Research.

My work has been awarded with a Best Student Paper Finalist Nomination (IROS 2020), a Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant, a Siebel Scholarship and a Swartz Entrepreneurship Fellowship. 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..

Selected News

• Sept 2024 Released Windows Agent Arena, a new benchmarking tool for computer-using agents 🤖
• Jan 2024 Paper accepted at ICRA 24
• Aug 2023 Papers accepted at ICCV 23 and IROS 23!
• Feb 2023 Released our blog post on ChatGPT for robotics!
• Jan 2023 Workshop proposal accepted to ICRA 23! Pretraining for Robotics
• Jan 2023 Papers accepted at ICLR 23 (notable top 25%) and ICRA 23
• June 2022 One paper accepted at IROS 2022
• May 2022 Invited to give research talks at the Air Force Research Lab and at the Automate Show
• July 2021 Defended my PhD thesis and now joined Microsoft as a Senior Researcher
• June 2021 One paper accepted at IROS 2021
• March 2021 Two papers accepted at ICRA 2021
• Sept 2020 Our paper on cross-modal representations for drone racing is a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at IROS 2020 (3 out of 2996 submissions)
• Sept 2020 Honored to become a Siebel Scholar, class of 2021!

Publications

Education

2016 - 2021

Ph.D., Robotics

Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute

Pittsburgh, PA
Research Advisor: Prof. Sebastian Scherer
Thesis Committee: Sebastian Scherer, Jessica Hodgins, Oliver Kroemer, Ashish Kapoor, Nathan Ratliff

2011 - 2016

B.S., Mechatronics Engineering - Robotics

University of São Paulo, Polytechnic School

São Paulo, Brazil
GPA: 8.7/10, non-curved, top 3/800
Senior Thesis: Development of email classifier in Brazilian Portuguese for automatic response
Research Advisor: Prof. Fabio Cozman

Jan 2013 - Dec 2013

Study abroad, Mechanical Engineering

Cornell University, College of Engineering

Ithaca, NY
GPA: 4.08 / 4.30
One-year study program. Full scholarship by Brazil's Ministry of Education
Research Advisor: Prof. Ephrahim Garcia

Awards and honors

• 2020: Best Student Paper Finalist, IROS 2020
• 2020: Siebel Scholarship, class of 2021 ($35,000)
• 2020: Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant ($25,000)
• 2019: James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellowship
• 2017-2019: Travel awards: RSS’17, ISER’18, IROS’19, CMU Provost
• 2017: CMU School of Computer Science Technology and Entertainment Proposal for Autonomous Drone Cinematographer ($60,000)
• 2014-2016: Fundacão Estudar Merit Scholarship for outstanding trajectory and academic potential, 28 recipients out of 31,000+ applicants (~$10,000)
• 2012-2014: The State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) scholarship for undergraduate research (~$3,000)
• 2013: Dean's List, Cornell University
• 2013: Full scholarship from Brazil's Ministry of Education for one-year study program at Cornell University, College of Engineering (~$75,000)
• 2011: Entered the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo in 3rd/10,600 applicants
• 2011: "PACE Course Competition Engineering Design Graphics", 2nd place, sponsored by GM, Autodesk, HP, Oracle, Siemens
• 2010: High school valedictorian - Colegio Visconde de Porto Seguro, São Paulo, Brazil
• 2010: Gold Medal, Brazilian Physics Olympiad, OBF (top 20 from over 50,000 competitors)

Work Experience

Feb 2025 - Present

Microsoft AI

Member of Technical Staff

• Post-training of LLMs

May 2023 - Feb 2025, Redmond, WA

Microsoft

Senior Researcher, Applied Sciences Group

• Developing AI-based experiences for the new Windows Copilot
• Focused on computer-using agents and proactive recommendations
• Training large language models (LLMs), computer vision models, and generative AI tools
• In the process of submitting 2 patent applications

July 2021 - May 2023, Redmond, WA

Microsoft Research

Senior Researcher, Autonomous Systems and Robotics Research Group

• Developed multi-modal foundational models for robotics and decision-making. My research focus was to create generative machine learning models that fuse language, vision, and geometrical features to allow autonomous agents to take actions in the real world.
• Conference publications at ICCV, ICLR, ICRA, IROS, and workshop organizer at ICRA 23

May 2020 - Aug 2020, Pittsburgh, PA

Facebook AI Research

Research Intern

• Worked with Jessica Hodgins and Mustafa Mukadam on learning a manifold of movie emotion descrip- tors, and a generative model to automatically execute distinct styles for autonomous drone cameras.

May 2019 - Aug 2019, Redmond, WA

Microsoft Research

Research Intern

• Worked on imitation learning and sim-to-real transfer of deep control policies with Ashish Kapoor, Vibhav Vineet on learning efficient state representations for imitation learning that can generalize across simulation and real-life data

Aug 2015 - May 2016, São Paulo, Brazil

McKinsey & Co.

Business Analyst Intern

• Worked as a generatist consultant on Supply Chain, Logistics, Purchasing, and Commercial Policy Transformation across multiple industries

Jul 2014 - Aug 2014, São Paulo, Brazil

Itaú BBA

Winter Intern, Cost Optimization and Estimation Team

• Itaú BBA is Latin America's largest corporate investment bank, in a holding with $85B market cap

May 2013 - Aug 2013, Thousand Oaks, CA

Amgen Inc.

Summer Intern, Global Strategic Sourcing, Finance and Strategy Team

• Amgen is the largest biotech company in the world with $18.7B in sales in 2013
• Developed and applied statistical analysis to a marketing bench-marking database leading to an estimated 4x increase in savings ($8M) and 60% decrease (4 months) in the time required to perform data analysis

Media

Business Insider: Microsoft is using ChatGPT to teach robots how to get you a soda and warm up your lunch

IEEE Spectrum: ChatGPT for Robotics - Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Microsoft: Training deep control policies for the real world

Gizmodo: Autonomous Camera Drones Film Like a Hollywood Director

Microsoft Research Blog: Rapidly enabling autonomy at scale with simulation

CMU: Putting the Power of a Film Director in a Drone

Nvidia: This Drone Uses AI to Automatically Create the Perfect Cinematic Shots

Interview with Colegio Visconde de Porto Seguro, one of Brazil's largest schools:

Undergraduate students from Univ. of Sao Paulo represent Brazil at AAAI 2016

https://www.estudarfora.org.br/estudantes-da-usp-sao-destaque-no-maior-congresso-de-inteligencia-artificial-do-mundo/

Rogerio Bonatti awarded Fundacao Estudar scholarship, given to outstanding Brazilian students in the areas of science and business

https://issuu.com/estudar/docs/anuario_bolsistas_web_final/42

Web designing: I designed the website of Bonavision, a company that produces equipment for visually impaired people:

Bonavision Auxilios Opticos

bonavision.com.br

Contact

Email
rogeriobonatti at gmail dot com
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