This Thurs: NVIDIA Senior Research Scientist Dr. Jim Fan
Talking about MineDojo, the applications of AI agents, and doing research in academia vs. industry
Hey all, we’re back after a two-week break! Join us this Thursday for our fireside chat with Dr. Jim Fan, Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA and co-creator of the 2022 NeurIPS Outstanding Datasets and Benchmarks Paper winner MineDojo.
When: Thursday, Oct 19. Doors open at 5:15, fireside starts at 5:45
Where: Notion SF HQ
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Hosts: Outset Capital and Imbue
Sponsored by: WndrCo
📝Details:
Topics we’ll cover:
Applications of AI agents in fields like game AI, code copilot, and robotics
Multimodal agents: potential use cases and areas for future research
Pros and cons of conducting AI research in academia vs. industry
Jim’s background:
Jim is a senior research scientist at NVIDIA AI, focusing on generally capable autonomous agents. His research efforts span foundation models, policy learning, robotics, multimodal learning, and large-scale systems.
Jim obtained his Ph.D. degree at Stanford Vision Lab, advised by Prof. Fei-Fei Li.
Previously, he did research internships at NVIDIA, Google Cloud AI, OpenAI, Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab, and Mila-Quebec AI Institute.
Jim was the Valedictorian of Class 2016 and a recipient of the Illig Medal at Columbia University
Jim is also active on Twitter!
📅Upcoming events:
Thurs, Oct 26: OpenAI researcher Dr. Richard Ngo
Thurs, Nov 2: Glean CEO Arvind Jain
Thurs, Nov 9: Chroma co-founders Anton Troynikov & Jeff Huber
See the full list of upcoming events HERE.