Jimmy (Tsung-Yen) Yang

@JimmyTYYang1

Researcher at @Waymo Research; ML/Embodied AI; PhD @Princeton ECE

NYC sites.google.com/view/tyjimmyya… Joined August 2018

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Jimmy (Tsung-Yen) Yang @JimmyTYYang1 Oct 11

If you're a PhD student looking for an impactful research internship for Summer 2027, our team would like to hear from you! Topics include, but are not limited to, world models, RL, post-training, and planning: careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/2027-summ…

careers.withwaymo.com 2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, Post Training - Mountain View, California, United States - San... Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building...

Jimmy (Tsung-Yen) Yang @JimmyTYYang1 Aug 19

I rarely repost content, but this is a step-change for robotics research. As an embodied AI researcher, I find this to be a truly special moment for the field

Generalist Verified account @GeneralistAI Aug 19

Introducing GEN-1.5, a one-shot learner.

It can learn new tasks in a few seconds. Show it what to do, and it generalizes.

This capability emerged from pretraining on physical data at scale, as a step towards our mission of building general intelligence for the physical world.

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Jimmy (Tsung-Yen) Yang @JimmyTYYang1 Jan 16

A career update, and let the journey begin!

Jimmy (Tsung-Yen) Yang @JimmyTYYang1 Jan 14

It was great to work with @BasileTerv987 on this project! The JEPA world model works well on unseen robot tasks. Thanks Basile for the amazing work!

Basile Terver Verified account @BasileTerv987 Jan 12

My first PhD paper is out! 🎓

"What Drives Success in Physical Planning with Joint-Embedding Predictive World Models?"

tl:dr: JEPA-WMs for robotics: learn dynamics on top of visual encoders, optimize actions towards goal 👇

w/ @JimmyTYYang1, Jean Ponce, @AdrienBardes, @ylecun

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Jimmy (Tsung-Yen) Yang @JimmyTYYang1 Dec 18, 2025

It is my pleasure to work with Raktim! A concrete example of how to use human videos to learn robot policies

Raktim Gautam Goswami Verified account @raktimgg Dec 18, 2025

Introducing DexWM: Dexterous Manipulation World Model

tl;dr: train on human videos; fine-grained actions; hand-consistency loss; DexWM+MPC -> zero-shot dexterous manipulation

w/ @_amirbar, @DavidJFan, @JimmyTYYang1, @GaoyueZhou, P. Krishnamurthy, M. Rabbat, F. Khorrami, @ylecun

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