Staff Research Scientist / TLM @ Waymo | Generative Models, 3D Vision, Self-driving Cars | Prev. PhD@Berkeley, Google, Cruise | Opinions are my own

Mountain View, CA
Joined November 2013
Introducing Gemini 4 Argon – our new frontier model. It’s built for complex workflows across coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense – rolling out today to a set of trusted testers through our Fairwind Program.
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1/ Thrilled to share our latest research from Waymo at #CVPR2026: Sensor2Sensor: Cross-Embodiment Sensor Conversion for Autonomous Driving. Shoutout to our stellar intern Jiahao Wang for leading this project
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4/ How it works: We combined 4D Gaussian Splatting (for paired-data construction) with diffusion-based sensor generation. This opens up an entirely new avenue for scaling data in AV training and validation.📈
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Attending CVPR? Come see the poster! 📍 Day 3 Morning — June 7 📝 Paper ID: 41224
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Gemini Omni is a major leap in world understanding & multimodal editing! It can take photos, video & audio and build entirely new scenes. Over time it’ll be able to handle any input & any output - starting w/ video You can even give it your own videos & iterate on your ideas:
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Max Jiang retweeted
📢Our team @GoogleDeepMind is hiring a Research Scientist in MTV, NYC, or SF! Join us to push the frontiers of visual perception & spatial reasoning for multimodal foundation models like Gemini, Nano Banana, and more! Send your CV to [email protected]
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Great use of Genie 3 from @waymo to create high-fidelity, interactive simulations of rare events that are nearly impossible to capture in the real world.
Genie 3 🤝 @Waymo The Waymo World Model generates photorealistic, interactive environments to train autonomous vehicles. This helps the cars navigate rare, unpredictable events before encountering them in reality. 🧵
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Super cool use case of Genie 3 simulations!
We’re excited to introduce the Waymo World Model—a frontier generative mode for large-scale, hyper-realistic autonomous driving simulation built on @GoogleDeepMind’s Genie 3. By simulating the “impossible”, we proactively prepare the Waymo Driver for some of the most rare and complex scenarios—from tornadoes to planes landing on freeways—long before it encounters them in the real world. waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-w…
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Incredibly excited to share our most recent work: the Waymo World Model. We leverage the broad world knowledge in Google DeepMind's Genie 3 and bring it into our most advanced autonomous driving simulator to date, with emergent transfer of world knowledge even into the 3D domain.
We’re excited to introduce the Waymo World Model—a frontier generative mode for large-scale, hyper-realistic autonomous driving simulation built on @GoogleDeepMind’s Genie 3. By simulating the “impossible”, we proactively prepare the Waymo Driver for some of the most rare and complex scenarios—from tornadoes to planes landing on freeways—long before it encounters them in the real world. waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-w…
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Exponential scaling ongoing – @Waymo has officially doubled our fully autonomous cities in a matter of weeks, reaching 10 cities with the newest additions of San Antonio and Orlando. This is a testament to the maturity and generalizability of the Waymo Driver, our deliberate, safety-first approach to scaling, and an important step as we prepare to serve more riders across more cities soon.
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An early glimpse into the exciting future of fully generative AV world models ;)
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📣Super excited to share a new opportunity to work with me and my team to build the most advanced generative world model for simulating autonomous vehicles 🤖🚕🌎 enabling Waymo to scale faster, safer, and serve more people. careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/r…
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We are in the most unique position to leverage the data, compute, talent and a little bit of secret sauce 😉 to crack one of AI’s most exciting new frontiers.
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If you share this mission and have related experience in world models / video, image generation models, diffusion models, LLMs, 3D, …, let’s chat!
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Can a single autonomous driving simulation world model jointly insert, delete, and control the behavior of all agents and traffic lights in a bird's-eye-view scene? For the first time, we show this is possible in SceneDiffuser++, our CVPR '25 paper, w/ 60+ second simulations.🧵
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Genie 3 feels like a watershed moment for world models 🌐: we can now generate multi-minute, real-time interactive simulations of any imaginable world. This could be the key missing piece for embodied AGI… and it can also create beautiful beaches with my dog, playable real time
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