Jiafei Duan is a Presidential Young Professor in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington, where he was advised by Professors Dieter Fox and Ranjay Krishna, and his undergraduate degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU). His research lies at the intersection of robotics and computer vision, focusing on robotics foundation models, with an emphasis on scalable data collection and generation, grounding vision–language models in robotic reasoning, and improving robust generalisation in robot learning. His work has been featured in MIT Technology Review, GeekWire, VentureBeat, and Business Wire. His research has appeared in top AI and robotics venues, including ICLR, ICML, RSS, CoRL, ECCV, IJCAI, CoLM, and EMNLP, and has received several honours, including Best Paper at Ubiquitous Robots 2023, Best Paper at the CoRL RememberRL Workshop 2025, Best Paper Awards at numerous ICRA 2026 workshops, and a Spotlight Award at ICLR 2024. He was also named a finalist for the CVPR 2026 Rising Star in Spatial Intelligence. In service to the community, he has served as an Area Chair for top conferences such as CoRL.