Yilun Du

Faculty, Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Harvard University
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Preferred Pronouns: He/Him
KEMPNER GLOBAL COMMUNITY I speak: English
Yilun Du wearing a black shirt and smiling at the camera.

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ydu@seas.harvard.edu

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SEC 6.138
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About

Yilun Du is an Institute Investigator at the Kempner Institute and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). Before joining Harvard, he was a senior research scientist at Google Deepmind and research fellow at OpenAI. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, advised by Leslie Kaelbling, Tomas Lozano-Perez, and Joshua Tenenbaum.

Research Focus

Yilun’s research focuses on constructing intelligent embodied agents in the physical world. His recent research has focused on constructing generative models of the world, and using these for downstream reasoning and decision making. His specific areas of interest include reinforcement learning, reasoning, generative modeling, computer vision, and natural language processing.