Scholar
Sherry Yang
Google Scholar ID: 7c1B_fIAAAAJ
Google DeepMind
Citations & Impact
Citations
6,023
H-index
27
i10-index
31
Publications
20
Co-authors
110
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Oct 2025: Released WorldGym, a world model for evaluating robot policies (e.g., OpenVLA, Octo)
- Sep 2025: Organizing a workshop on world models in robotics at CoRL 2025
- Aug 2025: Paper 'VideoAgent: Self-Improving Video Generation' selected as spotlight at RL Conference 2025 Workshop on Reinforcement Learning Beyond Rewards
- Jul 2025: Presented on evaluating robot policies in a world model at ICML Workshop on Building Physically Plausible World Models
- May 2024: Paper 'UniSim: Learning Interactive Real-World Simulators' received Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2024
Background
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NYU Courant
- Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
- Researches in machine learning with a focus on reinforcement learning and generative modeling
- Recently interested in problems at the intersection of foundation models and decision making, such as learning world models and agents
- Applications in robotics and AI for science
