Daniel Bear

Joined

July 2019

Names

Daniel Bear

Emails

****@stanford.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@noetik.ai (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

Principal Researcher

Noetik, Inc. (noetik.ai)

2023 – 2025

Postdoc

Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2017 – 2023

PhD student

Harvard University (harvard.edu)

2010 – 2016

Undergrad student

Harvard University (harvard.edu)

2006 – 2010

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Daniel LK Yamins

2017 – 2023

Expertise

Computer Vision

2017 – 2025

Self Supervised Learning

2017 – 2025

Object Segmentation

2017 – 2025

Publications

Zero-shot Object Understanding with a Physically Controllable World Model
Rahul Mysore Venkatesh, Klemen Kotar, Lilian Naing Chen, Wanhee Lee, Luca Thomas Wheeler, Seungwoo Kim, Jared Watrous, Gia Ancone, Ashley Xu, Honglin Chen, Daniel Bear, Stefan Stojanov, Daniel LK Yamins
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Physical Dynamics with Counterfactual World Modeling
Rahul Mysore Venkatesh, Honglin Chen, Kevin Feigelis, Daniel Bear, Khaled Jedoui, Klemen Kotar, Felix Jedidja Binder, Wanhee Lee, Sherry Liu, Kevin A. Smith, Judith E Fan, Daniel LK Yamins
- ECCV
- Readers: Everyone
Unsupervised 3D Scene Representation Learning via Movable Object Inference
Honglin Chen, Wanhee Lee, Hong-Xing Yu, Rahul Mysore Venkatesh, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Daniel Bear, Jiajun Wu, Daniel LK Yamins
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Unsupervised 3D Scene Representation Learning via Movable Object Inference
Honglin Chen, Wanhee Lee, Hong-Xing Yu, Rahul Mysore Venkatesh, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Daniel Bear, Jiajun Wu, Daniel LK Yamins
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Learning Physical Graph Representations from Visual Scenes
Daniel Bear, Chaofei Fan, Damian Mrowca, Yunzhu Li, Seth Alter, Aran Nayebi, Jeremy Schwartz, Li Fei-Fei, Jiajun Wu, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Daniel LK Yamins
- 13 Jun 2021
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Visual Grounding of Learned Physical Models
Yunzhu Li, Toru Lin, Kexin Yi, Daniel Bear, Daniel LK Yamins, Jiajun Wu, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Antonio Torralba
- 13 Jun 2021
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Physion: Evaluating Physical Prediction from Vision in Humans and Machines
Daniel Bear, Elias Wang, Damian Mrowca, Felix Jedidja Binder, Hsiao-Yu Tung, RT Pramod, Cameron Holdaway, Sirui Tao, Kevin A. Smith, Fan-Yun Sun, Li Fei-Fei, Nancy Kanwisher, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Daniel LK Yamins, Judith E Fan
- Published: 29 Jul 2021, Last Modified: 26 May 2025
- NeurIPS 2021 Datasets and Benchmarks Track (Round 1)
- Readers: Everyone
ThreeDWorld: A Platform for Interactive Multi-Modal Physical Simulation
Chuang Gan, Jeremy Schwartz, Seth Alter, Damian Mrowca, Martin Schrimpf, James Traer, Julian De Freitas, Jonas Kubilius, Abhishek Bhandwaldar, Nick Haber, Megumi Sano, Kuno Kim, Elias Wang, Michael Lingelbach, Aidan Curtis, Kevin Tyler Feigelis, Daniel Bear, Dan Gutfreund, David Daniel Cox, Antonio Torralba et al. (4 additional authors not shown)
- Published: 29 Jul 2021, Last Modified: 26 May 2025
- NeurIPS 2021 Datasets and Benchmarks Track (Round 1)
- Readers: Everyone
Task-Driven Convolutional Recurrent Models of the Visual System
Aran Nayebi, Daniel Bear, Jonas Kubilius, Kohitij Kar, Surya Ganguli, David Sussillo, James J. DiCarlo, Daniel L. Yamins
- 2018 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- NeurIPS 2018
- Readers: Everyone

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