Jim Fan

Jim Fan is the co-lead of the Generalist Embodied Agent Group at NVIDIA. GEAR’s mission is to build generally capable physical AI. Jim's team is spearheading Isaac GR00T, NVIDIA’s moonshot initiative at building the AI brain for humanoid robotics. Previously, he obtained his Ph.D. at Stanford Vision Lab. His publications have won awards and nominations, including Outstanding Paper at NeurIPS 2022. He spearheaded multiple works on robot foundation models, proficient Minecraft players, and general-purpose agents that learn to operate a computer. Jim's works have been widely featured in news media such as the New York Times, Forbes, MIT Technology Review, TechCrunch, WIRED, and VentureBeat.