Presenter

Dr. Jim Fan is the Lead of Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group at NVIDIA. GEAR’s mission is to build generally capable AI agents in simulations and the real world. Dr. Fan’s team is leading Project GR00T, NVIDIA’s moonshot initiative at building the AI brain for humanoid robotics. Previously, Dr. Fan obtained his Ph.D. degree at Stanford Vision Lab. His publications have won several awards and nominations, including the Outstanding Paper Award at NeurIPS 2022. He spearheaded multiple impactful works on multimodal foundation models for robotics, AI gamers that play Minecraft proficiently, and general-purpose agents that learn to operate a computer. His works have been widely featured in news media, such as New York Times, Forbes, MIT Technology Review, TechCrunch, The WIRED, VentureBeat, etc.