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Yilun Du
Harvard UniversityAssistant Professor of Computer ScienceNVIDIAResearch Scientist (Part-time)
Du builds agents that can imagine possible worlds before acting.[1] 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.
Career & education
Current rolesHarvard UniversityJul 2025-presentAssistant Professor of Computer ScienceNVIDIA2026-presentResearch Scientist (Part-time)
Harvard UniversityJul 2025-presentNVIDIA2026-presentPreviously
Google DeepMind2024-2025Senior Research Scientist
OpenAI2018-2018Research Fellow
Google DeepMind2024-2025OpenAI2018-2018Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
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citations39,382As of Oct 30, '26
References
- Yilun Du — compositional models, planning and embodied intelligenceyilundu.github.io
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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