Game of Drones – Competition at NeurIPS 2019

Who is behind this?

The organizing team behind the game of drones are the developers of AirSim from Microsoft Research and robotics researchers from Stanford who share the vision of a simulator realistic enough to provide a training and testing environment for autonomous mobile robots such as drones or self-driving cars.

Many people are helping to make this happen, but the core team consists of:

• Matthew Brown (opens in new tab), AirSim Technical Development
• Guada Casuso (opens in new tab), Principal Technical Product Manager, Microsoft
• Eric Cristofalo (opens in new tab), Ph.D. at Stanford University in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Darius Garza (opens in new tab), UI/Product Designer, Microsoft
• Nicholas Gyde (opens in new tab), AirSim Technical Development
• Ashish Kapoor, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft
• Ratnesh Madaan (opens in new tab), Research Software Development Engineer, Microsoft
• Keiko Nagami (opens in new tab), Graduate Student, Stanford University
• Jim Piavis, Principal Program Manager working with the AirSim AI/ML simulation platform, Microsoft
• Davide Scaramuzza (opens in new tab), Professor and Director of the Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich
• Mac Schwager (opens in new tab), Assistant Professor and Director of the Multi-Robot Systems Lab (MSL), Stanford University
• Tim Taubner (opens in new tab), Masters student from ETH Zurich currently visiting MSL
• Sai Vemprala (opens in new tab), Researcher, Microsoft

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