Meet the Pioneers of Physical AI
Celebrating the visionaries mastering OpenUSD to bring physical AI to life. Our ambassadors solve robotics and digital twin challenges, sharing their expertise to inspire and empower the community.
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Take advantage of OpenUSD, RTX, and generative AI technologies to build 3D applications and tools that bring interoperability and advanced graphics to digital twin use cases.
Industrial digital twins simulate products and production facilities, enabling physical AI and autonomous systems in industrial settings.
Athena Angara
Student AmbassadorAthena Angara, a data science graduate from UIC, brings experience from Argonne, EVL, and KPMG, specializing in digital twins, VR/AR, and data-driven solutions. She combines strong technical skills with a focus on real-world impact with a passion for advancing AI and robotics through data visualization and problem-solving.
Bobby Carlton
AmbassadorBobby Carlton, head of global business development at FS Studio, helps enterprises adopt NVIDIA Omniverse libraries for building digital twin, simulation, and AI solutions. His team builds high-fidelity, simulation-ready environments for robotics, predictive maintenance, and city-scale digital twins.
Borja Mayoral Arauz
AmbassadorBorja Mayoral Arauz is an NVIDIA developer architect lead at Deloitte Digital, driving enterprise adoption of Omniverse and OpenUSD for industrial digital twin innovation. He architects real-time, physically accurate simulation workflows and scalable OpenUSD pipelines that unify CAD, AI, and synthetic data to power next-generation digital twin solutions.
Brad Zalischuk
AmbassadorBrad Zalischuk is director of Digital Innovation and Transformation at Eclipse Automation, leading an end to end digital transformation of operations powered by NVIDIA Omniverse. He is advancing high fidelity, simulation ready digital twins by ensuring the engineering data, workflows, and source systems behind each machine flow natively into its digital counterpart.
Christopher Scott
AmbassadorChris Scott, CEO of Outdoor Living 3D and Evolver Interactive, applies his engineering background to digital twin projects for the U.S. Department of Defense and Fortune 100 companies.
Dylan Tobin
AmbassadorDylan Tobin, AI solutions architect and founder of SynapGarden, builds context-aware AI systems to bring intelligent automation to domain-specific workflows.
John Mitchell
AmbassadorJohn Mitchell, a 25-year BMW veteran, leads digital twin initiatives at Plant Spartanburg. He uses Omniverse libraries and OpenUSD to optimize manufacturing and collaborates with industry leaders to bridge physical and digital production.
Michael Wagner
AmbassadorMichael Wagner, CEO of SyncTwin, empowers manufacturing companies to enter the industrial metaverse by transforming traditional document-based workflows—like those in Excel and PowerPoint—into structured, multi-layered digital twin asset pipelines built on OpenUSD.
Nandu Vellal
AmbassadorNandu Vellal is a seasoned mechanical engineer with 30+ years in product design, 3D design, CAD/CAM, and IT systems. His company, nAurava, is a member of the NVIDIA Inception Program.
Robot simulation enables robots to autonomously sense, plan, and perform complex tasks in the physical world through learning and testing.
Austin Hwang
Student AmbassadorAustin Hwang is an undergraduate computer science student at Northeastern University. He leverages Omniverse libraries and OpenUSD to advance robotics, digital twins, and sim-to-real workflows across both academic and industry settings.
Itamar Lliuk
AmbassadorItamar Iliuk is an associate professor using NVIDIA Omniverse to develop a digital twin of a hospital ICU, training autonomous robots to assist nurses and enhance clinical workflows. Through her teaching and research, she empowers students and supports entrepreneurs in building innovative healthcare solutions within the Omniverse ecosystem.
Kabilan KB
AmbassadorKabilan KB, an NVIDIA DLI Ambassador, a member of the Jetson AI Lab Research Group, and a Dell Pro Max Ambassador, specializes in robotics and deep learning. He teaches advanced tools, such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac ROS, leveraging the NVIDIA Jetson platform. As a content creator, he shares expertise on YouTube and Medium, focusing on generative AI for robotics on edge devices, driving innovation in AI and robotics.
Kimate Richards
AmbassadorKimate Richards is a robotics pioneer and tech architect with over 30 years of experience in engineering and automation. As founder of 10 Things Inc., he is building a standardized robotics platform to help organizations move from prototype to production, leveraging NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, and OpenUSD while mentoring the next generation of roboticists.
Muammer Bay
AmbassadorMuammer Bay, a simulation engineer, specializes in synthetic data, digital twins, and robotics solutions leveraging NVIDIA Omniverse libraries. He focuses on computer vision, physics-based simulations, and AI integration. Muammer shares his expertise through YouTube tutorials and an Isaac Lab Hub, educating others on advanced robotics workflows.
Mustafa Mohammadi
AmbassadorMustafa Mohammadi is a robotics and physical AI innovator specializing in simulation-driven development and synthetic data generation for embodied intelligence. He champions the use of NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac Sim to bridge the sim-to-real gap, accelerating scalable robot training and deployment across the robotics ecosystem.
Ricardo Gil
AmbassadorRicardo Gil is a software engineer at Canon focused on bridging the gap between the physical world and simulation through robotics and digital twin applications. He leverages and extends NVIDIA Omniverse to help engineers and creators solve real-world challenges, connecting robotics, AI, and digital twins into practical, scalable solutions.
Dr. Rosy Xi Luo
AmbassadorAs founder of Raygen Innovation, "EU Navigator" for China's robotics innovators, Dr. Luo architects verifiable trust through Omniverse library integration & OpenUSD-based physical simulation and builds "Champion's Leagues" to turn technology into EU market success.
Sanjuna Mariam Mathews
AmbassadorSanjuna Mariam Mathews is a robotics innovator, YouTuber, author, and speaker with 7+ years of experience, advancing ROS, Digital Twins, and Physical AI while inspiring the Robotics community.
Sydney Montalto
Student AmbassadorSydney is an industrial design student passionate about human-tech interaction, focusing on ergonomics, robotics, and software development. They combine design and technology to create innovative, user-friendly solutions. Sydney is a detail-oriented problem-solver, skilled in UI and software development and implementing human-centered approaches.
Physical AI creates realistic 3D environments and objects for simulations and virtual worlds.
Islam Sediek Mohamed Ibrahim
AmbassadorIslam Ibrahim, cofounder and CEO of MEDGRAM Intelligence, has over eight years of experience in VR, AR, and metaverse technologies, creating innovative solutions for sectors like education, health, and entertainment.
Jan Haluszka
AmbassadorJan Haluszka is an Omniverse developer and former technical artist with 20+ years in design, CGI, and immersive technology—now focused on advancing OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse workflows. He transforms fragmented CAD and 3D ecosystems into unified, interactive digital twins through scalable USD structuring, custom extensions, and AI-driven pipeline innovation.
Jerry Chen
AmbassadorJerry Chen is a senior CG generalist with 15+ years of experience in the AECO industry. Utilizing NVIDIA Omniverse, OpenUSD, and industry standard DCCs, he blends artistic and technical sensibilities to construct scalable environments.
Scott Dempsey
AmbassadorScott Dempsey, founder of VectorTrack, brings decades of offshore and industrial robotics experience across telecoms, energy, and process engineering. His work enables scalable AI training by combining photorealistic perception with physics-informed realism for complex robotic applications.
Rafi Nizam
AmbassadorRafi Nizam is cofounder and chief creative officer of Falcon & Storm, where he uses OpenUSD as the backbone of his production pipeline to structure scenes, manage assets, and enable scalable, non-destructive collaboration. He leverages NVIDIA Omniverse to extend this foundation into real-time iteration across complex, cross-domain projects.
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