Aniruddha Kembhavi

Aniruddha Kembhavi is an Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington's Computer Science & Engineering department and currently serves as Director of Science Strategy at Wayve AI in London, UK. Previously, he led computer vision efforts as Senior Director at Allen Institute for AI (AI2) in Seattle and contributed to Microsoft's Image and Video Search division.

His research spans 20+ years in Computer Vision, Robotics, and Embodied AI, focusing on open-source frameworks like AI2-THOR and Molmo. His work emphasizes procedural environment generation, vision-language integration, and 3D asset creation, with large-scale datasets such as Objaverse becoming foundational in 3D computer vision.

• CVPR 2025 Best Paper (Honorable Mention)
• CVPR 2023 Best Paper Winner
• Neurips 2022 Outstanding Paper
• CoRL 2024 Outstanding Paper
• IROS 2024 Best Mobile Manipulation Paper
• ICRA 2024 Best Paper Winner
• Allen Institute Test Of Time Award 2020
• NVIDIA Pioneer Award 2018

His recent publications analyze vision-language models, 3D generation evaluation, and diffusion architectures for unified generation. He actively contributes to community-building as Program Chair for ICCV 2025 and Senior Area Chair for CVPR 2024.