jiafei1224.github.io

DUAN Jiafei

NUS Presidential Young Professor
Research Scientist, A*STAR

  • B.Eng. (Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 2021)
  • M.S. (Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, 2024)
  • Ph.D. (Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, 2026)

Jiafei Duan is a Presidential Young Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), School of Computing, where I will direct the MAGIC Lab. He completed my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Washington, co-advised by Prof. Ranjay Krishna and Prof. Dieter Fox (2022–2026). He was also a Graduate Student Researcher at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab. His research mission focuses on teaching robots to perceive, reason, and act. Mainly focus on robot learning, embodied AI, and building large-scale robotics foundation models that are deployable in the real world.

RESEARCH AREAS

Artificial Intelligence
  • Robotics
Media
  • Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Embodied AI

  • Robot Learning

  • 3D Vision

  • Multimodal Large Language Model reasoning

  • Robotics Manipulation

RESEARCH PROJECTS

RESEARCH GROUPS

MAGIC Lab

Manipulation and General Intelligence Control (MAGIC) Lab


TEACHING INNOVATIONS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-World Deployment
  • MolmoAct: Action Reasoning Models that Reason in Space
  • SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation
  • AHA: A Vision-Language-Model for Detecting and Reasoning Over Failures in Robotic Manipulation
  • THE COLOSSEUM: A Benchmark for Evaluating Generalization for Robotic Manipulation
  • Manipulate-Anything: Automating Real-World Robots using Vision-Language Models

AWARDS & HONOURS

  • National Science Fellowship (PhD)

  • CVPR Rising Star in Spatial Intelligence (Finalist)

  • International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots Best Paper Award

COURSES TAUGHT