Ming-Yu Liu 劉洺堉

I'm Ming-Yu Liu, Vice President of Research at NVIDIA and an IEEE Fellow. I lead the Deep Imagination Research group and the NVIDIA Cosmos effort, where we advance Generative AI for Physical AI — building world foundation models that allow machines not just to perceive the world, but to simulate, reason about, and interact with it.

Over the years, my team has helped define multiple new product categories, from generative models powering global creative ecosystems to real-time neural graphics systems used by millions. We publish regularly at the top AI and graphics venues, but more importantly, we translate research into platforms that developers and enterprises can build on.

At a high level, I'm driven by the vision of building the "Matrix" for robots — a physics-grounded simulated universe where machines can dream, rehearse, and accumulate experience safely at scale before ever acting in the real world.