John Wheatley Lambert

Researcher, Google DeepMind

Joined

July 2019

Names

John Lambert

Emails

****@cs.stanford.edu (Confirmed)

****@gatech.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Homepage

Google Scholar

DBLP

Career & Education History

Researcher

Google DeepMind (google.com)

2024 – Present

Researcher

Waymo (google.com)

2022 – 2024

PhD student

Georgia Institute of Technology (gatech.edu)

2018 – 2022

Intern

Argo AI (argo.ai)

2020 – 2021

Intern

Intel (intel.com)

2019 – 2020

Intern

ARGO AI (argo.ai)

2017 – 2019

MS student

Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2017 – 2018

Undergraduate Student

Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2011 – 2017

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Advisor

James Hays

2018 – 2022

Advisor

Frank Dellaert

2018 – 2022

Intern Supervisor

Vladlen Koltun

2019 – 2020

Expertise

language models

2024 – Present

multi-agent simulation

2022 – 2025

floorplan reconstruction

2021 – 2022

Publications

Eliciting Behaviors in Multi-Turn Conversations
Jing Huang, Shujian Zhang, Lun Wang, Andrew Hard, Rajiv Mathews, John Wheatley Lambert
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Fantastic Reasoning Behaviors and Where to Find Them: Unsupervised Discovery of the Reasoning Process
Zhenyu Zhang, Shujian Zhang, John Wheatley Lambert, Wenxuan Zhou, Zhangyang Wang, Mingqing Chen, Andrew Hard, Rajiv Mathews, Lun Wang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
SceneDiffuser: Efficient and Controllable Driving Simulation Initialization and Rollout
Chiyu Max Jiang, Yijing Bai, Andre Cornman, Christopher Davis, Xiukun Huang, Hong Jeon, Sakshum Kulshrestha, John Wheatley Lambert, Shuangyu Li, Xuanyu Zhou, Carlos Fuertes, Chang Yuan, Mingxing Tan, Yin Zhou, Dragomir Anguelov
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
The Waymo Open Sim Agents Challenge
Nico Montali, John Lambert, Paul Mougin, Alex Kuefler, Nicholas Rhinehart, Michelle Li, Cole Gulino, Tristan Emrich, Zoey Zeyu Yang, Shimon Whiteson, Brandyn White, Dragomir Anguelov
- NeurIPS 2023 Datasets and Benchmarks Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Argoverse: 3D Tracking and Forecasting with Rich Maps
Jagjeet Singh, Allie Chang, John Lambert, Patsorn Sangkloy, Andrew Hartnett, Peter Carr, Simon Lucey, Deva Ramanan, James Hays, Slawomir Bak
- 13 Jun 2022
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Argoverse 2: Next Generation Datasets for Self-Driving Perception and Forecasting
Benjamin Wilson, William Qi, Tanmay Agarwal, John Lambert, Jagjeet Singh, Siddhesh Khandelwal, Bowen Pan, Ratnesh Kumar, Andrew Hartnett, Jhony Kaesemodel Pontes, Deva Ramanan, Peter Carr, James Hays
- Published: 11 Oct 2021, Last Modified: 12 Oct 2025
- NeurIPS 2021 Datasets and Benchmarks Track (Round 2)
- Readers: Everyone
Trust, but Verify: Cross-Modality Fusion for HD Map Change Detection
John Lambert, James Hays
- Published: 11 Oct 2021, Last Modified: 12 Oct 2025
- NeurIPS 2021 Datasets and Benchmarks Track (Round 2)
- Readers: Everyone
Argoverse: 3D Tracking and Forecasting With Rich Maps.
Ming-Fang Chang, John Lambert, Patsorn Sangkloy, Jagjeet Singh, Slawomir Bak, Andrew Hartnett, De Wang, Peter Carr, Simon Lucey, Deva Ramanan, James Hays
- 2019 (modified: 10 Nov 2022)
- CVPR2019
- Readers: Everyone
Deep Learning Under Privileged Information Using Heteroscedastic Dropout
John Lambert, Ozan Sener, Silvio Savarese
- 2018 (modified: 10 Nov 2022)
- CVPR 2018
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors

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