Jiageng Mao

Jiageng Mao is a final-year PhD candidate at the University of Southern California, advised by Professor Yue Wang in the USC Geometry, Vision, and Learning Lab. His research spans robotics, computer vision, and language models, with a focus on foundation models for robot perception and planning, end-to-end autonomous driving solutions, and open-world 3D scene understanding. He has held research positions at NVIDIA Research and Google DeepMind, and his work includes universal humanoid pose learning from internet videos and the Psi-0 foundation model for humanoid loco-manipulation. His research is supported by a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship and an NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship.