Scholar
Yilun Du
Google Scholar ID: GRMMc_MAAAAJ
Harvard University
Citations & Impact
Citations
14,380
H-index
49
i10-index
86
Publications
20
Co-authors
17
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Gold medalist at the International Biology Olympiad
- Early work on Energy-Based Models (EBMs) in 2020 contributed to the development of diffusion models
- Published influential work across generative modeling, reasoning, perception, and interactive agents
- Organizing workshops on 'Physically Grounded World Models' at ICML 2025 and 'World Models in Robotics' at CoRL 2025
- PhD thesis focused on compositional world models for embodied intelligence
Background
- Assistant Professor at Harvard University's Kempner Institute and Department of Computer Science
- Research focuses on generative models, decision making, robot learning, embodied agents, and their applications in scientific domains
- Aims to develop intelligent embodied agents that operate in the physical world
- Builds compositional generative models (e.g., Energy-Based Models, EBMs) to enable systematic planning and iterative reasoning
- Interested in decentralized generative architectures for decision-making, integrating multimodal models (e.g., 3D perception, memory, auditory understanding) that cooperate jointly
- Emphasizes the importance of test-time search for effective multimodal and decision-making agents
- Explores general improvements to generative modeling and applications in computational biology and inverse design
