Nikita Kitaev

kitaev@berkeley.edu

I am a third-year PhD student at U.C. Berkeley, advised by Dan Klein. I am supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

My current research interests are Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing.

I received my B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science also from U.C. Berkeley. During this time, I worked on robotics research in Pieter Abbeel's group.

Publications

Recent

Constituency Parsing with a Self-Attentive Encoder
Nikita Kitaev and Dan Klein
ACL 2018
[software] [paper]

Where is Misty? Interpreting Spatial Descriptors by Modeling Regions in Space
Nikita Kitaev and Dan Klein
EMNLP 2017
[paper]

2015 and earlier

Physics-Based Trajectory Optimization for Grasping in Cluttered Environments
Nikita Kitaev, Igor Mordatch, Sachin Patil, and Pieter Abbeel
ICRA 2015

BOSS: Building Operating System Services
Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Andrew Krioukov, Jay Taneja, Sagar Karandikar, Gabe Fierro, Nikita Kitaev, and David Culler
USENIX NSDI 2013

Building Application Stack (BAS)
Andrew Krioukov, Gabe Fierro, Nikita Kitaev, and David Culler
BuildSys 2012