Ryan Julian

Senior Research Software Engineer, Google

Joined

June 2020

Names

Ryan Julian

Emails

****@usc.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@google.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Homepage

Google Scholar

DBLP

Career & Education History

Senior Research Software Engineer

Google (google.com)

2021 – Present

Student Researcher

Google (google.com)

2019 – 2021

PhD student

University of Southern California (usc.edu)

2017 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Chelsea Finn

2019 – Present

Coauthor

Karol Hausman

2018 – Present

PhD Advisor

Gaurav Sukhatme

2017 – Present

Expertise

fine-tuning reinforcement learning

2019 – Present

benchmark reinforcement learning

2018 – Present

reinforcement learning

2017 – Present

multi-task reinforcement learning

2017 – Present

meta-learning reinforcement

2017 – Present

reusable skills in reinforcement learning

2017 – Present

robotics

2012 – Present

Publications

World Action Models are Zero-shot Policies
Seonghyeon Ye, Yunhao Ge, Kaiyuan Zheng, Shenyuan Gao, Sihyun Yu, George Kurian, Suneel Indupuru, You Liang Tan, Chuning Zhu, Jiannan Xiang, Ayaan Naveed Malik, Kyungmin Lee, William Liang, Nadun Ranawaka Arachchige, Jiasheng Gu, Yinzhen Xu, Guanzhi Wang, Fengyuan Hu, Avnish Narayan, Johan Bjorck et al. (16 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Workshop World Models
- Readers: Everyone
Meta-World+: An Improved, Standardized, RL Benchmark
Reginald McLean, Evangelos Chatzaroulas, Luc McCutcheon, Frank Röder, Tianhe Yu, Zhanpeng He, K.R. Zentner, Ryan Julian, J K Terry, Isaac Woungang, Nariman Farsad, Pablo Samuel Castro
- CODEML@ICML25 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Meta-World+: An Improved, Standardized, RL Benchmark
Reginald McLean, Evangelos Chatzaroulas, Luc McCutcheon, Frank Röder, Tianhe Yu, Zhanpeng He, K.R. Zentner, Ryan Julian, J K Terry, Isaac Woungang, Nariman Farsad, Pablo Samuel Castro
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track poster
- Readers: Everyone
AutoRT: Embodied Foundation Models for Large Scale Orchestration of Robotic Agents
Michael Ahn, Debidatta Dwibedi, Chelsea Finn, Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Karol Hausman, brian ichter, Alex Irpan, Nikhil J Joshi, Ryan Julian, Sean Kirmani, Isabel Leal, Tsang-Wei Edward Lee, Sergey Levine, Yao Lu, sharath maddineni, Kanishka Rao, Dorsa Sadigh, Pannag R Sanketi, Pierre Sermanet et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- VLMNM 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models
Quan Vuong, Sergey Levine, Homer Rich Walke, Karl Pertsch, Anikait Singh, Ria Doshi, Charles Xu, Jianlan Luo, Liam Tan, Dhruv Shah, Chelsea Finn, Max Du, Moo Jin Kim, Alexander Khazatsky, Jonathan Heewon Yang, Tony Z. Zhao, Ken Goldberg, Ryan Hoque, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Simeon Adebola et al. (154 additional authors not shown)
- LangRob @ CoRL 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models
Quan Vuong, Sergey Levine, Homer Rich Walke, Karl Pertsch, Anikait Singh, Ria Doshi, Charles Xu, Jianlan Luo, Liam Tan, Dhruv Shah, Chelsea Finn, Max Du, Moo Jin Kim, Alexander Khazatsky, Jonathan Heewon Yang, Tony Z. Zhao, Ken Goldberg, Ryan Hoque, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Simeon Adebola et al. (154 additional authors not shown)
- CoRL 2023 Workshop TGR Oral
- Readers: Everyone
AutoRT: Embodied Foundation Models for Large Scale Orchestration of Robotic Agents
Michael Ahn, Debidatta Dwibedi, Chelsea Finn, Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Karol Hausman, brian ichter, Alex Irpan, Nikhil J Joshi, Ryan Julian, Sean Kirmani, Isabel Leal, Tsang-Wei Edward Lee, Sergey Levine, Yao Lu, Sharath Maddineni, Kanishka Rao, Dorsa Sadigh, Pannag R Sanketi, Pierre Sermanet et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control
Brianna Zitkovich, Tianhe Yu, Sichun Xu, Peng Xu, Ted Xiao, Fei Xia, Jialin Wu, Paul Wohlhart, Stefan Welker, Ayzaan Wahid, Quan Vuong, Vincent Vanhoucke, Huong Tran, Radu Soricut, Anikait Singh, Jaspiar Singh, Pierre Sermanet, Pannag R Sanketi, Grecia Salazar, Michael S Ryoo et al. (34 additional authors not shown)
- Published: 30 Aug 2023, Last Modified: 15 Jan 2026
- CoRL 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances
brian ichter, Anthony Brohan, Yevgen Chebotar, Chelsea Finn, Karol Hausman, Alexander Herzog, Daniel Ho, Julian Ibarz, Alex Irpan, Eric Jang, Ryan Julian, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Sergey Levine, Yao Lu, Carolina Parada, Kanishka Rao, Pierre Sermanet, Alexander T Toshev, Vincent Vanhoucke, Fei Xia et al. (24 additional authors not shown)
- Published: 10 Sept 2022, Last Modified: 04 Aug 2025
- CoRL 2022 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances
Anthony Brohan, Yevgen Chebotar, Chelsea Finn, Karol Hausman, Alexander Herzog, Daniel Ho, Julian Ibarz, brian ichter, Alex Irpan, Eric Jang, Ryan Julian, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Sergey Levine, Yao Lu, Carolina Parada, Kanishka Rao, Pierre Sermanet, Alexander T Toshev, Vincent Vanhoucke, Fei Xia et al. (3 additional authors not shown)
- 06 Apr 2022 (modified: 06 Apr 2022)
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone

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