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Yilun Du

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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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Background

Current role
Assistant Professor of Computer Science 2025-present
Previously
2024-2025Senior Research Scientist,
Research Fellow,
Education
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 10, 2026