Jim Fan

Director of AI & Distinguished Scientist (GR00T, GEAR Lab) — NVIDIA

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BS from Columbia (Valedictorian); PhD from Stanford (2016–2021, advised by Fei-Fei Li). OpenAI’s very first intern; co-developed OpenAI Universe. At NVIDIA, co-founded the GEAR Lab (Generalist Embodied Agent Research) and co-leads Project GR00T (humanoid robotics). MineDojo won NeurIPS 2022 Outstanding Paper Award. Focuses on Foundation Agents across physical and virtual worlds.

Affiliations

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    NVIDIA — Director of AI & Distinguished Scientist (GR00T, GEAR Lab)
    Formerly: Stanford (PhD, Fei-Fei Li); OpenAI (first intern)