Jie Xu

Jie Xu is a Senior Research Scientist at the NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab, where he works on the intersection of robotics, simulation, and machine learning. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT CSAIL in 2022 under the supervision of Professor Wojciech Matusik in the Computational Design and Fabrication Group, and his bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University in 2016. His research focuses on reinforcement learning, differentiable physics-based simulation, robotics control and design co-optimization, and sim-to-real transfer, and he is known for work such as accelerated policy learning with parallel differentiable simulation.