Jiatao Gu is an assistant professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Computer and Information Science and a member of technical staff at AMI Labs. His work at AMI focuses on world models.

Gu’s research aims to help AI agents operate in the physical world. He develops generative machine-learning approaches for world modeling, iterative reasoning and decision-making, with particular interest in multimodal models spanning language, images, video and 3D.

Before joining Penn, Gu was a staff research scientist at Apple AI/ML and a senior research scientist at Meta AI’s FAIR lab. He earned a PhD in electronic engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 2018 and a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University in 2014.