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Yiannis Hadjiyianni

ML Systems / Robotics / Performance

i care about
building things that matter.

i work on robotics software, inference optimization, GPU-heavy ML systems, and research around continual learning, memory and (random nerd-snipe) neural combinatorial optimization for real-world operation research use cases.

Life Objective

My life's RL objective is

maxπ  Eπ[tγt1{shippedt}HumanUtilityt]\max_\pi \; \mathbb{E}_\pi \left[\sum_t \gamma^t \mathbf{1}\{\text{shipped}_t\}\,\text{HumanUtility}_t\right]

ship things that matter, over a long horizon.

Startups

3 / 0

failed startups / success stories

Publications

2 / 2

NeurIPS, MLSys / first-author

Robotics systems

ML infrastructure

CUDA, Rust, and performance work

Some of my work

Some of my work

realized return so far.

the discounted sum of things where tγt1{shippedt=1    HumanUtilityt>0}\sum_t \gamma^t \mathbf{1}\{\text{shipped}_t = 1 \;\wedge\; \text{HumanUtility}_t > 0\}

Orb

Tools for Humanity

ML and systems work around the Orb stack, spanning robotics-adjacent software, deployment-heavy inference paths, and performance-sensitive infrastructure.

Project

Current

Custom GPU-Palletizing RL Environments

Progressive Robotics

Designed and optimized custom reinforcement learning environments for palletizing, pushing CPU bottlenecks onto the GPU and making training loops materially faster.

Project

2025 - 2026

Teleoperation Infrastructure

Delian

Built the low-latency teleoperation stack for deployed systems, including streaming, service orchestration, and the infrastructure needed to keep the loop responsive.

Project

2025

NVision

NAS-AI (Co-Founder / CTO)

A manufacturing computer vision system built for live production lines, focused on edge deployment, real-time streaming, and practical operational value.

Project

2024

Robin

RobinStore (Co-Founder / CTO)

A supermarket product scraping and matching system for large-scale catalog retrieval, normalization, and embedding-based product similarity.

Project

2023