Jason Lee

Hi! I'm a Master's Student at the University of Washington advised by Professor Dieter Fox and Ranjay Krishna. I'm also a Student Researcher at Allen Institute for AI on the Robotics and Prior team. My research focuses on scalable approaches that enable robots to reason, and autonomously, learn new tasks in the physical world.


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jason328 at uw dot edu



Actively Seeking PhD Positions for Fall 2026 and other oppportunities

Oct 2025

MolmoAct featured in State of AI report 2025

Sep 2025

Invited talk at National Cheng Kung University.

Sep 2025

Invited talk at Frank Wang's group at National Taiwan University.

Sep 2025

MolmoAct accepted to Rational Robots @ CoRL 2025 as Best Paper Runner-up.

Sep 2025

MolmoAct accepted to Data @ CoRL 2025 as Best Paper Nominee.

Aug 2025

Invited talk at Genesis AI.

Aug 2025

Invited talk at Google Deepmind.

Aug 2025

Invited talk at UW SyFI lab.

Aug 2025

Releasing MolmoAct, the first Action Reasoning Model that grounds actions in physical and 3D space.
For a more up-to-date list, visit my Google Scholar
MolmoAct

MolmoAct: Action Reasoning Models that can Reason in Space


Jason Lee*, Jiafei Duan*, Haoquan Fang*, Yuquan Deng, Shou Liu, Boyang Li, Jieyu Zhang Yi Ru Wang, Sangho Lee, Winson Han, Wilbert Pumacay, Angelica Wu, Rose Hendrix, Karen Farley, Eli Vanderbilt, Ali Farhadi, Dieter Fox, Ranjay Krishna
In Submission
★ Best Paper Runner Up, Rational Robotics @ CoRL ★
★ Best Paper Nominee, Data @ CoRL ★
Webpage  •   PDF  •   Code  •   Models  •   Data  •   The Robot Report  •   TLDR

BranchOut

BranchOut: Capturing Realistic Multimodality in Autonomous Driving Decisions

Hee Jae Kim, Zekai Yin, Lei Lai, Jason Lee, Eshed Ohn-Bar
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025
Webpage  •   PDF  •   Code  •  

Point Arena

PointArena: Probing Multimodal Grounding Through Language-Guided Pointing

Long Cheng*, Jiafei Duan*, Yi Ru Wang , Haoquan Fang , Boyang Li, Yushan Huang, Elvis Wang, Ainaz Eftekhar, Jason Lee, Wentao Yuan, Rose Hendrix, Noah A. Smith, Fei Xia, Dieter Fox, Ranjay Krishna
In Submission
Webpage  •   PDF  •   Code

Oct 2025

National Cheng Kung University

Oct 2025

National Taiwan University

Aug 2025

Genesis AI

Aug 2025

Google Deepmind

Aug 2025

UW SyFI lab

July 2025

Allen Institute for AI

2025

Reviewer for International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026)

2025

Reviewer for Synthetic Data for Computer Vision (CVPR 2025)

2025

Workshop Organizer for 3D Vision Language Models for Robotic Manipulation (CVPR 2025)

2023

TA for CS210: Computer Systems at Boston University

2022

TA for CS210: Computer Systems at Boston University