Alex N. Wang

Hello! I’m a fourth year PhD in CILVR at NYU.
I’m fortunate to be advised by Pavel Izmailov and to collaborate with Yutong Bai and Amir Bar.

My research interests lie in visual generation and representation learning to support planning, reasoning and other robotics tasks. Some specifics include:

• How to plan for complex robots in real-life environments using world models.
• Building new quantitative metrics to improve generative world models for robotics tasks.
• Reducing compute demands of generative world models to enable real-time planning.

Previously, my work focused on learning representations from video data.

I received my MSc working with Richard Zemel
and my BASc in Engineering Science (Robotics) from the University of Toronto.
I am supported by the NSERC PGS-D scholarship.

Feel free to reach to me at anw2067 [at] cims.nyu.edu