Jetson AI Lab
Research Group
A global collective for advancing open-source Edge ML, open to anyone to join and collaborate with others from the community.
Upcoming Meetings
Regular Series: 2nd Tuesday of every month
Next Meeting Details
- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
- Platform: Microsoft Teams
Follow the community calendar to see upcoming events in your local time zone and receive schedule updates.
Research Topics
Our group explores cutting-edge research areas in edge AI and robotics. These topics represent our current focus areas.
Agentic AI and tool-using models on Jetson
Vision-language-action models for physical AI
Real-time multimodal VLM streaming and video understanding
World models and spatial reasoning for robotics
On-device LLM/VLM optimization and quantization
Fine-tuning and post-training models on Jetson
Robotics foundation models with ROS 2 and Isaac
Edge video analytics, sensor fusion, and perception
Low-latency speech, ASR, TTS, and conversational AI
Function calling, MCP, guardrails, and structured output
Edge AI deployment, orchestration, and observability
Smart home, industrial, and autonomous systems
Contribution Guidelines
We welcome contributions that make edge AI projects easier for the community to reproduce, improve, and build upon. Before getting started, please review the Jetson AI Lab contribution guidelines.
- Contribute code, documentation, and tutorials to the NVIDIA AI-IOT Jetson AI Lab repository
- Containers provided by jetson-containers
- Discuss ideas and proposals on the Jetson Projects forum
- Share hardware-focused community projects on Hackster.io
Use the forums, Discord, or GitHub Issues for ongoing technical discussions, and share project updates during community meetings.
Past Meetings
Watch the latest Jetson AI Lab recordings from NVIDIA Developer.
April 14, 2026
TensorRT Edge-LLM on Jetson & Culture
- • TensorRT Edge-LLM on Jetson
- • Community culture
March 10, 2026
Jetson AI Lab Lightning Talks
- • Community lightning talks
February 10, 2026
Drones on Jetson & Isaac Lab on DGX Spark
- • Drones on Jetson
- • Isaac Lab on DGX Spark
Core Contributors
Our research group brings together experts from academia, industry, and the open-source community who are passionate about advancing edge AI and robotics. Listed here are members with ongoing participation; foundational contributors who are no longer active in the forum appear as emeritus below.
Nurgaliyev Shakhizat
Institute of Smart Systems and AI
Researcher | Kazakhstan
Johnny Núñez Cano
PhD Researcher in CV/AI | Barcelona, Spain
Akash James
Spark Cognition
AI Architect, UC Berkeley Researcher | Oakland, CA
Dana Sheahen
NVIDIA
DLI Curriculum Developer | Santa Clara, CA
Patty Delafuente
NVIDIA
Data Scientist & UMBC PhD Student | MD
Jesse Flot
CMU Robotics Academy
Co-Director | Pittsburgh, PA
David Pearson
ConnectTech
Embedded Systems Engineer | Ontario, CA
Ori Nachum
Innovation
AI Expert |
Emeritus contributors
These members helped establish the research group and the broader Jetson generative-AI ecosystem. Affiliations and links reflect their contributions during active participation; community projects such as jetson-containers remain widely used.
Connect with the Jetson Community
Meet developers building with Jetson, exchange ideas, share your projects, and collaborate on the future of edge AI and robotics.