Jim Fan
Director of AI & Distinguished Scientist, NVIDIA
Organization
NVIDIA
Position
Director of AI & Distinguished Scientist, NVIDIA
Intelligence Briefing
Director of AI at NVIDIA, co-leading Project GR00T (humanoid robotics foundation model) and the GEAR Lab. Was OpenAI's first intern (2016, mentored by Andrej Karpathy and Ilya Sutskever). PhD under Fei-Fei Li at Stanford. Research at Baidu with Andrew Ng and Dario Amodei. Columbia valedictorian. NeurIPS 2022 Outstanding Paper Award for MineDojo.
BS, Computer Science — Columbia University
PhD, Computer Science — Stanford University
AGI Position Assessment
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Primarily research-focused public profile; no detailed standalone safety doctrine is documented here.
Primarily research-focused public profile; no detailed standalone safety doctrine is documented here.
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Dossier last updated: 2026-03-10