Unnat Jain
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I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.
Toward building general-purpose embodied intelligence, my research focuses on the intersection of computer vision (perception) and robot learning (action).
I have worked across industry, academia, and startups at Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) Labs, Carnegie Mellon University, and Skild AI, collaborating with Abhinav Gupta, Deepak Pathak, and Xinlei Chen. I received my PhD from UIUC, advised by Alex Schwing and Svetlana Lazebnik, and previously graduated from IIT Kanpur. UC Irvine is a resourceful, friendly, safe, and warm ecosystem, and the campus is ideal for learning-tinkering-building AI systems. The deadline for grad applications is December 15, 2025. For opportunities to work with me, see my UCI profile. |
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| IIT Kanpur 2011-2016 |
UIUC 2016-2022 |
CMU & Meta 2022-2024 |
Skild AI 2024-2025 |
UC Irvine 2025- |
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| UMass Amherst Summer 2015 |
Uber ATG Summer 2017 |
Allen Institute for AI Summer 2018, 2020 |
FAIR (collab w/ UT Austin) Summer 2019, FA19, SP20 |
Google DeepMind Summer 2021, FA21 |
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| Area Chairing | Currently: CVPR 2026, ICLR 2026, NeurIPS 2025 CoRL 2025; CVPR 2023, 2024, 2025; ICCV 2025; ICLR 2025; NeurIPS 2023, 2024 |
| Oct 2025 | First quarter at UC Irvine as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science. |
| Nov 2024 | For those on the faculty job search, here is a note I wrote: Hidden Curriculum of Faculty Job Search |
| June 2024 | Organizing the community-building workshop 'CV 20/20: A Retrospective Vision' at CVPR 2024. |
| June 2024 | Accepted faculty position at UC Irvine. Spending the next year at Skild AI and will start in 2025. |
| Jun 2023 | Organizing the 'Scholars & Big Models: How Can Academics Adapt?' workshop at CVPR 2023. |
| Dec 2022 | Organizing the RoboAdapt Workshop at CoRL 2023. |
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Shivansh Patel, Shraddhaa Mohan, Hanlin Mai, Unnat Jain*, Svetlana Lazebnik*, Yunzhu Li* arXiv 2025 paper | project | code |
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Duy-Kien Nguyen, Mahmoud Assran, Unnat Jain, Martin R Oswald, Cees GM Snoek, Xinlei Chen ICLR 2025 paper |
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Justin Wasserman, Girish Chowdhary, Abhinav Gupta, Unnat Jain ICRA 2024 Best Paper at NeurIPS 2023 Robot Learning Workshop paper | project | code |
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Xavi Puig*, Eric Undersander*, Andrew Szot*, Mikael Cote*, Ruslan Partsey*, Jimmy Yang*, Ruta Desai*, Alexander Clegg*, Michal Hlavac, Tiffany Min, Theo Gervet, Vladimír Vondruš, Vincent-Pierre Berges, John Turner, Oleksandr Maksymets, Zsolt Kira, Mrinal Kalakrishnan, Jitendra Malik, Devendra Chaplot, Unnat Jain, Dhruv Batra, Akshara Rai**, Roozbeh Mottaghi** ICLR 2024 paper | project | code Media: 
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Sudeep Dasari, Mohan Kumar Srirama, Unnat Jain*, Abhinav Gupta* CoRL 2023 project | pdf |
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Dhruvesh Patel, Hamid Eghbalzadeh, Nitin Kamra, Michael Louis Iuzzolino, Unnat Jain*, Ruta Desai* ICCV 2023 paper | code |
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Andrew Szot, Unnat Jain, Dhruv Batra, Zsolt Kira, Ruta Desai, Akshara Rai ICML 2023 paper | code |
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Shikhar Bahl*, Russell Mendonca*, Lili Chen, Unnat Jain, Deepak Pathak CVPR 2023 paper | project Media: 
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Sonia Raychaudhuri, Tommaso Campari, Unnat Jain, Manolis Savva, Angel X. Chang WACV 2024 paper | project | code |
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Justin Wasserman*, Karmesh Yadav, Girish Chowdhary, Abhinav Gupta, Unnat Jain* CoRL 2022 paper | project | code |
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Matt Deitke, Dhruv Batra, Yonatan Bisk, ... Unnat Jain ... Luca Weihs, Jiajun Wu arXiv 2022 paper |
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Himangi Mittal, Pedro Morgado, Unnat Jain, Abhinav Gupta NeurIPS 2022 paper | code |
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Luca Weihs*, Unnat Jain*, Iou-Jen Liu, Jordi Salvador, Svetlana Lazebnik, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Alexander Schwing NeurIPS 2021 paper | project | code |
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Sonia Raychaudhuri, Saim Wani, Shivansh Patel, Unnat Jain, Angel X. Chang EMNLP 2021 (short) paper | project | code |
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Unnat Jain, Iou-Jen Liu, Svetlana Lazebnik, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Luca Weihs*, Alexander Schwing* ICCV 2021 paper | project |
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Shivansh Patel*, Saim Wani*, Unnat Jain*, Alexander Schwing, Svetlana Lazebnik, Manolis Savva, Angel X. Chang ICCV 2021 paper | project | code |
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Iou-Jen Liu, Unnat Jain, Raymond Yeh, Alexander Schwing ICML 2021 (long oral) paper | project | code |
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Saim Wani*, Shivansh Patel*, Unnat Jain*, Angel X. Chang, Manolis Savva NeurIPS 2020 paper | project | code | challenge |
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Luca Weihs*, Jordi Salvador*, Klemen Kotar*, Unnat Jain, Kuo-Hao Zeng, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Aniruddha Kembhavi arXiv 2020 paper | project | code Media: ![[NEW]](./unnat_jain_files/media/venture-beat-logo.png){kind=logo}
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Unnat Jain*, Luca Weihs*, Eric Kolve, Ali Farhadi, Svetlana Lazebnik, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Alexander Schwing ECCV 2020 (spotlight) paper | project | code |
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Changan Chen*, Unnat Jain*, Carl Schissler, Sebastia Vicenc Amengual Gari, Ziad Al-Halah, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, Philip Robinson, Kristen Grauman ECCV 2020 (spotlight) paper | project | code | challenge Media: 
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Jingxiang Lin, Unnat Jain, Alexander Schwing NeurIPS 2019 paper | project | code |
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Unnat Jain*, Luca Weihs*, Eric Kolve, Mohammad Rastegari, Svetlana Lazebnik, Ali Farhadi, Alexander Schwing, Aniruddha Kembhavi CVPR 2019 (oral) paper | project | code Talk @ Amazon: video, ppt, pdf Talk @ CVPR'19: video, ppt, pdf, poster |
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Unnat Jain, Svetlana Lazebnik, Alexander Schwing CVPR 2018 |
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Unnat Jain*, Ziyu Zhang*, Alexander Schwing CVPR 2017 (spotlight) video | paper |
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Unnat Jain, Vinay Namboodiri, Gaurav Pandey Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) 2017 |