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Yilun Du is an Assistant Professor at Harvard University in the Kempner Institute and Department of Computer Science, and a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. He holds a PhD and bachelor's degree from MIT EECS, advised by prominent figures like Leslie Kaelbling. His research focuses on generative models, decision-making, and embodied agents, emphasizing compositional architectures and energy-based models. Notable contributions include foundational work on diffusion models and the development of frameworks like COMET and Diffusion Forcing. He has received awards such as the Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2024 and a gold medal at the International Biology Olympiad.
Education: PhD (MIT EECS, 2024), Bachelor's (MIT, 201X). Research spans generative AI applications in robotics, vision, and scientific domains. Key projects include compositional scene understanding, video generation, and multiagent self-improvement systems. His work bridges generative modeling with real-world decision-making, emphasizing generalization and scalability.
Publications highlight advancements in energy-based models, video diffusion, and embodied intelligence. He organizes workshops on compositional learning and safe AI at top conferences like NeurIPS. Current interests include decentralized generative architectures for decision-making societies of models and integrating systematic reasoning with deep learning.
