UCSD PhD Nicklas Hansen joins NYU as postdoc with LeCun and Pinto on world models + robots
LerrelPinto · x · 2026-10-20
Nicklas Hansen announced he defended his PhD at UCSD earlier this year (advised by Xiaolong Wang and Hao Su) and is now a postdoc at NYU working with Lerrel Pinto and Yann LeCun on world models and robots. It's a notable data point on where top embodied-AI talent is flowing.
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