Jiajun Wu

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Concentration Advising in:

Artificial Intelligence

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Member, Bio-X

Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

Member, Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance

Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Jiajun Wu is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, working on computer vision, machine learning, and computational cognitive science. Before joining Stanford, he was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google Research. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wu's research has been recognized through the AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program (YIP), the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, the AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award, the MIT George M. Sprowls PhD Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making, the 2020 Samsung AI Researcher of the Year, the IROS Best Paper Award on Cognitive Robotics, and faculty research awards from JPMC, Samsung, Amazon, and Meta.

Honors & Awards

AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program (YIP), AFOSR (2023)

AAAI New Faculty Highlights, AAAI (2023)

JPMC Faculty Research Award, JPMC (2022)

Forbes 30 Under 30, Science, Forbes (2022)

Meta Research Award, Meta (2021)

Amazon Research Award (ARA), Amazon (2021)

Samsung AI Researcher of the Year, Samsung (2020)

Samsung Global Research Outreach (GRO) Award, Samsung (2020)

ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, ACM (2019)

AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award, AAAI/ACM (2019)

Degrees / Education