
Boaz BarakResearcher
Harvard University
Catalyst Professor of Computer Science
via Harvard University
Researcher · Academic
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University
Du builds agents that can imagine possible worlds before acting. His research combines compositional generative models with planning so robots and other embodied systems can reason about unfamiliar scenes, tasks and scientific problems rather than merely repeat patterns seen in training.
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Last editorial review: August 10, 2026