Jiayuan Mao

Jiayuan Mao is a PhD student at MIT.

Jiayuan Mao Jiayuan Mao Email: jiayuanm [at] seas.upenn.edu Jiayuan Mao is a Member of Technical Staff at Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics, and an incoming assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania . She finished her PhD at MIT , advised by Josh Tenenbaum and Leslie Kaelbling . News I'm recruiting PhD students this application cycle (Fall 2026). Please apply to the CIS PhD program at Penn by December 15th and list my name on your application. Unfortunately, I’m unable to respond to individual inquiries outside the official application process. To junior PhD/master/undergraduate studen

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