The University of Texas at Austin
Tao XuMember of Technical Staff · OpenAIResearcher↗
Researcher · Engineer
Sean Kirmani
OpenAIMember of Technical Staff
Kirmani helps robots understand and act in the physical world. He led Gemini Robotics’ world-modeling research, using AI-generated simulations to test robot behavior.[1] At Everyday Robots, he helped bring vision and language models onto real robots, enabling them to recognize unfamiliar objects and answer questions about their surroundings.
Career & education
Current roleOpenAIAug 2025-presentMember of Technical Staff
OpenAIAug 2025-presentPreviously
Google DeepMind2023-2025Senior Research Scientist
Everyday Robots2021-2023Research Lead, Semantic Perception
Google DeepMind2023-2025Everyday Robots2021-2023Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations14,490As of Nov 6, '26
citations+4,749Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
References
- Sean Kirmani — current CVkirmani.ai
Gemini Robotics world-modeling research lead; deployed CLIP for robot visual question answering and open-vocabulary object detection at Everyday Robots.
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