Thet Htoo Naung

သက်ထူးနောင် | Ted

naung [at] mit [dot] edu

Welcome to the site! I'm an MIT 6-3 undergrad ('27) with an interest in machine learning and robotics, mainly simulation-driven manipulation. I do research at MIT CSAIL's Improbable AI Lab building simulation environments, and training policies using RL and diffusion models.

Previously, I was an ML Engineer Intern at Prox Robotics, where I built datasets and training pipelines from 1000+ robot demos and post-trained the π0 VLA model for bolt–nut sorting in MuJoCo.

Outside robotics, I've worked on neural-network-based speech perception modeling and built a wildfire prediction system using satellite data. I'll be working this January on my neurotoech startup building signal processing models.

updates

  • 01/2026: Thought it would be cool to have a website
Thet Htoo Naung