Ajay Subramanian
Staff Research Scientist, Atlas
Boston Dynamics
Waltham, MA
I am a Staff Research Scientist at Boston Dynamics, working on
dexterous manipulation for the Atlas humanoid robot.
Previously, I completed my PhD in Cognition & Perception at New York University, advised by Prof. Denis G. Pelli.
Publications
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Reward design agent for reinforcement learning
2026
Lee, H. , Subramanian, A. , Abbamatteo, B. , Veerabadran, V. , Matias, P. ,
Ridgeway, K. , Kamra, N
Under review
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A narrow spatial-frequency channel along the ventral stream supports object recognition
2026
Subramanian, A. , Tünçok, E. , Kurzawski, J. , Majaj, N. J. , Pelli, D. G. ,
Winawer, J
bioRxiv
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Human learning of complex novel tasks as theory-based modeling, exploration, and planning
2026
Tsividis, P. , Loula, J. , Burga, J. , Rodriguez, J. P. , Arnaud, S. , Foss, N. ,
Campero, A. , Subramanian, A. , Pouncy, T. , Gershman, S. , Tenenbaum, J. B
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
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Subramanian, A. , Price, S. , Kumbhar, O. , Sizikova, E. , Majaj, N. J. , Pelli,
D. G
Journal of Vision, 25(1), 4-4
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Özçelik, F. , Subramanian, A. , Majaj, N. J. , Pelli, D. G
NeurIPS Workshop on Unifying Representations in Neural Models (UniReps)
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Subramanian, A. , Sizikova, E. , Majaj, N. J. , Pelli, D. G
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). [Oral
presentation]
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Zhou, J. , Chun, C. , Subramanian, A. , Simoncelli, E. P
NeurIPS Workshop on Unifying Representations in Neural Models (UniReps)
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Subramanian, A. , Chitlangia, S. , Baths, V
Neural Networks, 145, 271-287
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Turner, J. P. , Knight, J. C. , Subramanian, A. , Nowotny, T
Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering, 2(2), 024002