James Ni

I’m a postbaccalaureate researcher at Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) since 2025, where I have been fortunate to be advised by Professor Jitendra Malik, Professor Trevor Darrell, and Dr. Roei Herzig. I graduated with with a double major in EECS and Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley 2025. I am interested in long-term goal of building general-purpose humanoid robots.

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Selected Publications

From Generated Human Videos to Physically Plausible Robot Trajectories
James Ni*, Zekai Wang*, Wei Lin*, Amir Bar*, Yann Lecun, Trevor Darrell, Jitendra Malik, Roei Herzig
arXiv 2025
Geometric Newton Inequalities Geometric Newton Inequalities
James Ni
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 2021

Selected Projects

Realistic Lightning Simulation
James Ni, Sonia Chacon, Jennifer Cao, Claire Ding
CS 184: Computer Graphics, Project Showcase Winner, Spring 2025

Honors & Awards

  • Arthur M. Hopkins Award, UC Berkeley EECS 2025
  • B.S. in EECS with Highest Honors 2025
  • B.A. in Applied Mathematics with Highest Distinction in General Scholarship 2025

Teaching

I have been a undergraduate student instructor for the following courses:

I have been a lab assistant for the following courses:

  • EECS 16B: Designing Information Devices and Systems II - Fall 2023, Spring 2023 (CalNet ID required)

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