Jiankai Sun
Research Intern at NVIDIA
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJiankai Sun is a research-focused machine learning engineer and Stanford PhD student with nine years of experience building and publishing cutting-edge work in robotics, generative models, and efficient AI architectures. He has held research internships across top labs including NVIDIA, Meta FAIR, Microsoft, Autodesk, Baidu, and Tencent, and is lead author on a CoRL 2025 paper about hierarchical hybrid learning for long-horizon robotic assembly. His recent NeurIPS contributions address efficient reasoning and simulated attention for long generation, reflecting a focus on scaling model reasoning and long-horizon planning. Jiankai blends strong theory (MCMC, Langevin dynamics) with systems-level experimentation in real-world vision and robotics domains, and often moves ideas from simulation to embodied tasks. Based in Palo Alto, he brings a cross-disciplinary background spanning Stanford, CUHK, UCLA, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and a pattern of short, high-impact research engagements at premier industry and academic labs.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityUniversity of California, Los AngelesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Stanford University
Github Skills (106)
textbook10
unreal-engine-410
python10
toolbox10
simulator10
deep-learning10
gpu10
ros10
autonomous-driving10
ai10
orb10
computer-vision10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
carla10
imitation-learning10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pbw-Berwin/View-Parsing-Network
Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
(RA-L & IROS 2020) Cross-view Semantic Segmentation for Sensing Surroundings.
Contributions:13 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
semantic-segmentation
Jiankai-Sun/ORB_SLAM2
Aug 2017 - Jan 2022
ORB_SLAM2 with map load/save function
Contributions:4 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
orb-slam2maporbpointcloud
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