- Researcher / student (OpenVLA), Stanford University1
Moo Jin Kim is a lead coauthor of OpenVLA, the open-source 7B vision-language-action model pretrained on Open X-Embodiment data. Project pages list him with Karl Pertsch and collaborators from Stanford, UC Berkeley, and industry partners; related work includes BridgeData V2 and RoboArena evaluations.123
At a glance
- Current role
- Researcher / student (OpenVLA)
- Company
- Stanford University
- Fields
- Robotics, Computer vision
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
- Lead coauthor of OpenVLA.1
OpenVLA
OpenVLA set a strong open baseline for generalist robot manipulation policies controllable across multiple robots and adaptable via parameter-efficient fine-tuning. Kim is starred as a lead author on the project page and paper.1
Timeline
- OpenVLA released at CoRL.1
Where they work
- Stanford University 43 people in the wiki
Related people
- Jane WuAlso at Stanford University
- Fei-Fei LiAlso at Stanford University
- Chelsea FinnAlso at Stanford University
- Brian HieAlso at Stanford University
- Brandon YangAlso at Stanford University
- Deepak PathakRobotics · Computer vision
- Karl PertschRobotics · Computer vision
- Will JacksonRobotics · Vision
- Jitendra MalikComputer vision · Robotics
- Byron BootsRobotics · Computer vision
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3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 24, 2026 · data updated Oct 24, 2026