Jared Berry
Mechanical Engineering MS Candidate | Robotics and Control | Northwestern University
👋 Hi, I’m Jared!
Starting Fall 2026 I’ll be a mechanical engineering PhD student at Northwestern University as a member of the Interactive and Emergent Autonomy Lab, led by Dr. Todd Murphey. In Spring 2026 I graduated from Northwestern with a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering (thesis track), both concentrated in robotics.
For my MS thesis I developed a novel data collection method for online world model training, enabling robots to make accurate dynamics predictions with significantly less training data. Robots using this data collection also exhibited emergent exploratory behaviors, frequently performing long-horizon interactions with objects in the environment.
🤖 What I Do
I specialize in building intelligent robotic systems that blend:
- Reinforcement learning
- World models
- Control theory
- Machine learning
- Simulation
My experience includes:
- Reinforcement learning for a high DOF dexterous robot
- Sim-to-real optimization with state-of-the-art machine learning techniques
- Developing simulation frameworks for RL and generative modeling applications
- Designing trajectory optimization pipelines for autonomous agents
- Programming intelligent systems for robotic arms and mobile robots
- ML architecture design for clinical research
I’m especially passionate about making systems that model the world around them, and learn to adapt to their environments in real time. I also love working on robotic manipulation pipelines, and would love to continue this direction of work in my next role.
🧠 Areas of Interest
- Reinforcement learning
- World modeling in robotics
- Control & decision-making
- Dexterous manipulation
- Medical & assistive robotics
📬 Let’s Connect!
Feel free to reach out! I’d love to chat about your research, my work, or just hang out and talk about:
- 🎵 Music
- 🏀 Basketball
- 🍳 Cooking
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