Walker Byrnes I am a PhD student in the PAIR Lab at Georgia Tech and a Research Engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta. Email  /  CV  /  Scholar  /  Github

I am interested in generalizable autonomy and robotics: building intelligence systems that are intuitive, flexible, and ubiquitous. My academic research to date has centered around continual learning for robot task planning and leveraging foundation models to inform agent world representations.

In my professional capacity, I conduct applied automation and robotics research in the fields of biomanufacturing and food processing. In these domains robots and intelligent machines are not present to the same extent as more traditional industries. The complex biochemical processes occurring in cell manufacturing, the heterogeneous and complex physical properties of food products, and the small scales in which such operations take place all pose significant barriers to the development and implementation of automated technologies.

CLIMB: Language-guided Continual Learning for Robot Task Planning Walker Byrnes, Miroslav Bogdanovic, Avi Balakirsky, Stephen Balakirsky, Animesh Garg, Submitted to ICRA 2025   (Currently under review) project page / arXiv (Coming Soon) A robot task planner that autonomously builds a library of causal world state predicates in the robot's environment by attempting tasks and learning from a large language model teacher on failures.

	Georgia Tech Research Institute - Aerospace, Transportation, and Advanced Systems Lab Research Engineer II
	Georgia Institute of Technology - People, AI, and Robots Lab PhD Student (est. graduation 2029)
	NSF Engineering Research Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT) Researcher / Trainee