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Suvir Mirchandani is a leading researcher at the intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics, whose work spans the foundational theory of large-scale AI models to the practical challenges of real-world robot learning. He is best known as a co-author of the landmark paper "On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models" (2021), which has amassed over 2,170 citations and defined the paradigm shift toward large, adaptable models like GPT-3 and DALL-E. In robotics, Mirchandani has made transformative contributions to data collection and reasoning. He leads the DROID project (108+ citations), creating one of the largest in-the-wild robot manipulation datasets, and developed RoboVQA, a scalable framework for multimodal long-horizon reasoning that achieves 2.2x higher throughput than traditional methods. His work on "Large Language Models as General Pattern Machines" (33 citations) demonstrates how pre-trained LLMs can solve abstract reasoning tasks, while his "Imitation Bootstrapped Reinforcement Learning" (13 citations) bridges the sample efficiency gap between imitation and reinforcement learning. Mirchandani’s research is driving the next generation of capable, data-efficient robots that can learn from diverse, real-world interactions.