Sherry Yang
About
I am an Assistant Professor at NYU Courant and a Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. I research in machine learning with a focus on reinforcement learning and generative modeling. Recently, I am interested in problems at the intersection of foundation models and decision making, such as learning world models and agents, and their applications in robotics and AI for science. Prior to this, I was a post-doc at Stanford working with Percy Liang. I obtained my Ph.D. from UC Berkeley advised by Pieter Abbeel, and my B.S. and M.Eng. from MIT.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Graphit: A high-performance graph dsl
Year: 2018
Citations: 289
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages 2 (OOPSLA)
Latest Recorded Paper
Object-centric 3D Motion Field for Robot Learning from Human Videos
Year: 2025
Citations: 5
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.04227
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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