// PERSON
Moo Jin Kim
ROLE RESEARCHERAT STANFORD UNIVERSITYMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN MAY 17, 2026
// BIO
Moo Jin Kim is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Stanford University, where he is advised by Chelsea Finn and Percy Liang. He conducts research in robotics, machine learning, and NLP, with a focus on vision-language-action models. He is best known as a core developer of OpenVLA, an open-source 7B-parameter vision-language-action model for robotic manipulation, and OpenVLA-OFT, an optimized fine-tuning recipe that achieves state-of-the-art performance on robot manipulation benchmarks.
// RECENT MENTIONS
// SIGNALS
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mention·arXiv Physical AI·MAY 17, 2026
“Stanford / OpenVLA Team (Kim et al., 2024), Academic origin of OpenVLA, the open-source VLA baseline. Referenced as part of the broader VLA landscape being addressed.”
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