Jiafei Duan
NUS Presidential Young Professor
Develops robotics foundation models at the intersection of robotics and computer vision, with emphasis on scalable robot data collection.
Jiafei Duan's lab at NUS works on robot perception & SLAM, generative & foundation models and large language models. 13 papers since 2023, 8 at top venues, mostly CoRL and ICLR. 4 PhD students and 5 master's students. 7 alumni, most often to Cortex AI and Google. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 62%
- PhD students
- 4
- MS students
- 5
- alumni listed
- 7
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 1 papers2025 · T1 1
- 6 papers2024 · T1 6
- 4 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CoRL, ICLR, RSS, Findings of EMNLP, UIST
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Large language models5 papers
- Generative & foundation models4 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM2 papers
- robotics1 paper
- emphasis0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
20251 paper
- ICLR (T1)AHA: A Vision-Language-Model for Detecting and Reasoning over Failures in Robotic Manipulation
20246 papers
- UIST (T1)EVE: Enabling Anyone to Train Robot using Augmented Reality
- CoRL (T1)Manipulate-Anything: Automating Real-World Robots using Vision-Language Models
- RSS (T1)Octopi: Object Property Reasoning with Large Tactile-Language Models
- CoRL (T1)RoboPoint: A Vision-Language Model for Spatial Affordance Prediction for Robotic
- ICLR (T1)Selective Visual Representations Improve Convergence and Generalization for Embodied-AI
- RSS (T1)THE COLOSSEUM: A Benchmark for Evaluating Generalization for Robotic Manipulation
20234 papers
- CogSciA Benchmark for Modeling Violation-of-Expectation in Physical Reasoning Across Event Categories
- CoRL (T1)AR2-D2:Training a Robot Without a Robot
- Ubiquitous RobotsGood Time to Ask: A Learning Framework for Asking for Help in Embodied Visual Navigation
- Findings of EMNLPNEWTON: Are Language models Capable of Physical Reasoning
Where alumni went7 listed, 33% to industry
Industry 2Academia 4
Most often to
- Cortex AI
Also to
- Carnegie Mellon University
- MIT
- Stanford University
Apply to NUSFall 2027
School of Computing PhD in Computer Science
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