Unnat Jain

Unnat Jain is set to join the University of California, Irvine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science in 2025. His research focuses on embodied intelligence, bridging computer vision and robot learning, with applications in AI for Social Good and Science. Currently, he is a Research Scientist at Skild AI, following roles at Meta’s FAIR Labs and a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. He holds a Ph.D. from UIUC (advised by Alex Schwing and Svetlana Lazebnik) and a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur.

Research Themes:

• Accelerating generalization in embodied AI via Human-to-Robot Learning and Sim-to-Real Transfer
• Pre-training & Self-Supervised Learning for embodied agents
• Multi-Agent Learning for collaborative tasks
• AI+Science: Integrating vision/RL with climate modeling and scientific simulations

He is recruiting motivated Ph.D. students (application deadline: Dec 15) and emphasizes UCI’s supportive environment for AI system development. Previous affiliations include CMU’s Robotics Institute and FAIR Labs.