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Jiageng is a final-year PhD candidate at the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Yue Wang. His research centers on physical AI. His goal is to bring AI to the real world by developing algorithms across robotics, computer vision, and language models. He is particularly interested in training large vision-language(-action) models and world(-action) models. He has held positions at NVIDIA Research and Google DeepMind. His research is supported by a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship and an NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship.
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jiagengm at usc dot edu
2025
PhysBench is accepted to ICLR 2025 as an oral presentation (Top 1.8%).
2024
Agent-Driver is accepted to COLM 2024 with Top 1% reviewer ratings.
Ψ₀: An Open Foundation Model Towards Universal Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Songlin Wei*, Hongyi Jing*, Boqian Li*, Zhenyu Zhao*, Jiageng Mao, Zhenhao Ni, Sicheng He, Jie Liu, Xiawei Liu, Kaidi Kang, Sheng Zang, Weiduo Yuan, Marco Pavone, Di Huang, Yue Wang.
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2026.
★ Best Paper Award at CVPR 3D-LLM/VLA Workshop★
Project Page • Code • Model
Humanoid Everyday: A Comprehensive Robotic Dataset for Open-World Humanoid Manipulation
Zhenyu Zhao*, Hongyi Jing*, Xiawei Liu, Jiageng Mao†, Abha Jha, Hanwen Yang, Rong Xue, Sergey Zakharov, Vitor Guizilini, Yue Wang†.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026.
★ Oral Presentation at ICRA From Data to Decisions Workshop★
★ Best Paper Award at CVPR Embodied AI Workshop★
Project Page • Code • Dataset
Robot Learning from a Physical World Model
Jiageng Mao, Sicheng He, Hao-Ning Wu, Yang You, Shuyang Sun, Zhicheng Wang, Yanan Bao, Huizhong Chen, Leonidas Guibas, Vitor Guizilini, Howard Zhou, Yue Wang.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026.
★ Best Paper Runner-Up at CVPR 3D-LLM/VLA Workshop★
Project Page • Demo
Robot Learning from Any Images
Jiageng Mao*, Siheng Zhao*, Wei Chow, Zeyu Shangguan, Tianheng Shi, Rong Xue, Yuxi Zheng, Yijia Weng, Yang You, Daniel Seita, Leonidas Guibas, Sergey Zakharov, Vitor Guizilini, Yue Wang.
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025.
★ Oral Presentation at ICCV Digital Twins Workshop★
Project Page • Code
Universal Humanoid Robot Pose Learning from Internet Human Videos
Jiageng Mao*, Siheng Zhao*, Siqi Song*, Tianheng Shi, Junjie Ye, Mingtong Zhang, Haoran Geng, Jitendra Malik, Vitor Guizilini, Yue Wang.
International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS), 2025.
★ Oral Presentation ★
Project Page • Code • Dataset
DreamDrive: Generative 4D Scene Modeling from Street View Images
Jiageng Mao, Boyi Li, Boris Ivanovic, Yuxiao Chen, Yan Wang, Yurong You, Chaowei Xiao, Danfei Xu, Marco Pavone, Yue Wang.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025.
★ Featured in NVIDIA's keynote talk at CES 2025. ★
CES-Video • Project Page • Code
2026
Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics
2026
Nanyang Technological University
2025
Stanford University (Host: MSL Lab)
Mentoring is what I value most about this career.
I work closely with my mentees—shaping ideas together and stepping back as they take ownership.
Their growth is, in a very direct sense, my own.
2026
Jiajun Xu. FuzzingRL (in submission, student first author)
2026
Weiduo Yuan. DreamPlan (in submission, student first author)
2025
Emily Yue-Ting Jia. PhysFluid (accepted at ICCV'25, student first author)
2025
Zhiyuan Gao. WindSeeker (accepted at NeurIPS'25, student first author)
2025
Rong Xue. SeFA Policy (accepted at ICRA'26, student first author)
2025
Tianheng Shi. UH-1 and RoLA (accepted at HUMANOIDS'25 and CoRL'25)
2025
Chuye Hong. UH-1 (accepted at HUMANOIDS'25)
2024
Wei Chow. PhysBench (accepted at ICLR'25 as oral presentation, student first author)
2024
Siqi Song. UH-1 (accepted at HUMANOIDS'25, student first author)
I was a teaching assistant of
2025
CSCI-677 Robot Perception.
2024
CSCI-670 Advanced Computer Vision.
2021
ENGR-597 Signals and Systems.
2020
ENGR-197 Multivariable Calculus.
I served as an organizer/program committee member of
I served as a reviewer of the major conferences and journals in robotics, computer vision, and machine learning,
including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, IJCV, T-PAMI, ICRA, IROS, CoRL, T-RO, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.