Dream LabsCo-founder & CEO
Apr 2026 — Present
Joel Jang is co-founder and CEO of Dream Labs, building world action models for robotics. Previously a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA GEAR Lab, he led the world-model team for Project GR00T and research including DreamZero, DreamDojo, DreamGen, and LAPA.
Joel Jang is co-founder and CEO of Dream Labs, building world action models for robotics. Previously a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA GEAR Lab, he led the world-model team for Project GR00T and research including DreamZero, DreamDojo, DreamGen, and LAPA.
Career
NVIDIASenior Research Scientist
Jul 2025 — Apr 2026
Led the world-model team for Project GR00T at GEAR Lab and the GR00T Dreams initiative, including DreamZero, DreamDojo, DreamGen, and LAPA.
NVIDIAResearch Scientist
Feb 2025 — Jul 2025
Developed general-purpose robot foundation models and led video world-model and latent-action efforts for GR00T N1 and N1.5.
NVIDIAResearch Intern
Mar 2024 — Feb 2025
Worked on foundation models for robotics at NVIDIA Robotics Lab and GEAR Lab.
Allen Institute for AIResearch Intern
May 2023 — Jan 2024
Worked on personalized RLHF and democratizing robotic foundation models.
Cosigns Received
Featured Media
joeljang.github.io
World Models and the Data Problem in Robotics
Joel’s essay on learning physical intelligence from human experience and video world models.
dreamzero0.github.io
DreamZero: World Action Models are Zero-shot Policies
Research and interactive demonstrations of a world action model that jointly predicts video and robot actions.
dreamdojo-world.github.io
DreamDojo: A Generalist Robot World Model
A robot world model pretrained on 44,000 hours of human video, with real-time action-conditioned rollouts.