Andrei Barbu

About Andrei Barbu

Research Scientist at Amazon. Spent 12 years at MIT in CSAIL and CBMM (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines). PhD from Purdue University in artificial intelligence & robotics. BCS from the University of Waterloo.My work involves grounding knowledge in the real world, knowledge acquisition and representation, robotics, computer vision, and neuroscience. I have a wide range of skills having a math/cs undergrad degree, worked as a sysadmin and programmer (ontology acquisition systems (semantic web), low-level networked applications, kernels). I regularly contribute to open source projects and am co-maintainer of Scheme->C.Specialties: Extensive knowledge of various programming languages: C++, Scheme, Haskell, C, PrologIn-depth knowledge of: artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, logic programming, mathematical logic, compilers, computer architecture, operating systems, robotics, knowledge representation, programming languages, algorithms

Experience

1. Principal Applied Scientist

   Amazon

   Jul 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

Education

• University of Waterloo

  BCS, Mathematics/Computer Science

  2004 — 2008

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Postdoc, AI/ML

• Purdue University

  PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Robotics, Neuroscience

  2008 — 2013

Skills

• Robotics
• Machine Learning
• Algorithms
• Scheme
• C
• Computer Architecture
• Statistics
• Distributed Systems
• Pattern Recognition
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Science
• Software Development
• Python
• C++
• Latex
• Computer Vision
• Programming Languages
• Prolog
• Haskell
• Opengl
• R