Fan-Yun Sun

Fan-Yun Sun co-founded and leads Moonlake AI, building world models and simulation tools for embodied AI. His research spans generative 3D environments, robotics training data and causal reasoning, following work at Stanford and NVIDIA.

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Andreessen Horowitz

May 2026 — Present

Scout

Moonlake AI

Aug 2025 — Present

Co-founder & CEO

NVIDIA

Jun 2023 — May 2025

Research Scientist

Stanford University

Dec 2020 — May 2025

Doctoral Researcher

Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

Jan 2020 — Jun 2020

Visiting Researcher

MaiCoin

Jun 2019 — Nov 2019

Researcher

Appier

Mar 2018 — Sep 2018

Machine Learning Engineer

WorldQuant

Jan 2018 — Feb 2018

Quantitative Researcher

Microsoft

2017 — 2018

Student Partner

Google

Jul 2017 — Sep 2017

Software Engineering Intern

Stanford University

Computer Science doctoral studies; MS earned during PhD program

National Taiwan University (NTU)

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

Products & media

moonlakeai.com

Efficient World Models

Co-authored with Chris Manning and Ian Goodfellow, an argument for causal world models built around useful abstractions and action-conditioned data.

Writing

ai.stanford.edu

3D-Generalist

A co-authored research project on generating and editing controllable 3D environments for synthetic data and embodied AI.

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Fan-Yun Sun

Andreessen Horowitz

Moonlake AI

NVIDIA

Stanford University

Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

MaiCoin

Appier

WorldQuant

Microsoft

Google

Stanford University

National Taiwan University (NTU)

Products & media

Efficient World Models

3D-Generalist

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