Scholar
Linxi "Jim" Fan
Google Scholar ID: sljtWIUAAAAJ
NVIDIA, https://jimfan.me
Citations & Impact
Citations
8,621
H-index
28
i10-index
35
Publications
20
Co-authors
20
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Voyager: The first AI agent that plays Minecraft proficiently and bootstraps its capabilities continuously
- - MineDojo: An open-ended agent learning framework in Minecraft, won the Outstanding Paper Award at NeurIPS 2022
- - Eureka: A 5-finger robot hand doing extremely dexterous tasks like pen spinning
- - VIMA: One of the earliest multimodal foundation models for robot manipulation
- - Published multiple conference papers and journal articles, including NeurIPS, FMDM Workshop, etc.
Research Experience
- - Interned at OpenAI, Baidu AI Labs, and MILA
- - Worked with Ilya Sutskever, Andrej Karpathy, Andrew Ng, Dario Amodei, and Yoshua Bengio during internships
- - Spearheaded projects such as Voyager, MineDojo, Eureka, and VIMA
Education
- - Ph.D. from Stanford Vision Lab, advised by Prof. Fei-Fei Li
- - Valedictorian of Class 2016 and received the Illig Medal at Columbia University
Background
- - Senior Research Scientist and Lead of AI Agents at NVIDIA AI
- - Research interests include multimodal foundation models, reinforcement learning, computer vision, and large-scale systems
- - Mission to build generally capable agents across physical worlds (robotics) and virtual worlds (games, simulation)
Miscellany
- - Shares extensive insights about AI research & industry on Twitter/X and LinkedIn
- - Was OpenAI’s very first intern, working on World of Bits project
