Rory Butler

Advisor: Rick Stevens

I completed my undergraduate from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2019, finishing with a BS with Honors in Mechanical Engineering, and a minor in Computer Science. I started at UChicago in 2020 to focus on robotics research to automate scientific discovery.

I am interested in robotics and automation, especially combined with artificial intelligence to enhance robot learning and planning. My current research is with Rick Stevens and Arvind Ramanathan at Argonne National Laboratory to design robotics simulations using NVIDIA Omniverse for automated science at scale.