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Jiajun Wu
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, of Psychology
Ph.D., MIT, EECS
S.M., MIT, EECS
Concentration Advising in:
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Psychology
Member, Bio-X
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Member, Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance
Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Honors & Awards
Computers and Thought Award, IJCAI (2026)
Early Career Program (ECP), ARO (2026)
Faculty Fellowship, Microsoft Research (2026)
Academic Grant, Nvidia (2025)
Research Scholar Award, Google (2025)
Best Paper Award Finalist, ICRA, IEEE (2025)
Research Grant, Okawa Foundation (2024)
CAREER Award, NSF (2024)
Young Investigator Program (YIP), ONR (2024)
AI's 10 to Watch, IEEE Intelligent Systems (2024)
Jiajun Wu is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, of Psychology at Stanford University, working on computer vision, machine learning, robotics, 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 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, the Young Investigator Programs (YIP) by ONR and by AFOSR, the Early Career Program (ECP) by ARO, the NSF CAREER award, the Okawa research grant, the AI's 10 to Watch by IEEE Intelligent Systems, paper awards and finalists at ICCV, CVPR, SIGGRAPH Asia, ICRA, CoRL, and IROS, dissertation awards from ACM, AAAI, and MIT, the 2020 Samsung AI Researcher of the Year, and faculty research awards from Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, J.P. Morgan, Samsung, Amazon, and Meta.