GenAIR Group

GenAIR Group

Fundamental Generative AI Research (GenAIR) Group

Welcome to the homepage of NVIDIA’s Fundamental Generative AI Research (GenAIR) group, led by Arash Vahdat. We are part of the Learning and Perception Research (LPR) organization and mostly focus on generative learning and its applications in different areas. We are particularly interested in:

  • Fundamental Generative AI: diffusion and flow models, efficient training and sampling, distillation and acceleration, semantic and modular control, test-time scaling, RL-based post-training, equivariant models, discrete and continuous generative models, new data modalities.
  • Generative AI for Biology and Chemistry: protein and biomolecule design, binder design, molecular generation and optimization, reaction modeling, synthetic pathway planning, lab-in-the-loop learning, wet-lab alignment, test-time steering, agentic scientific discovery.
  • Video and World Models: video generation, world models, accelerated generation, long-video generation, efficient memory, interactive and streaming generation.
  • Diffusion Language Models: continuous and discrete diffusion language models, parallel decoding, inference acceleration, distillation, post-training, test-time scaling, reinforcement learning, reasoning, speculative decoding.

We are currently looking for outstanding candidates to join our team as:

  • Research Interns for 2027: PhD students, apply here.
  • GenAI Research Scientist: Generative biomolecule design: link.
  • GenAI Research Scientist: Fundamental research on world models or text diffusion: link.
  • Senior Research Scientist: Apply here if you finished your PhD more than one year ago: link.

For general inquiries, you may email your resume to genair-openings@nvidia.com. Kindly note that we may not be able to respond to all inquiries via email.

News

March 2026 - NVIDIA just announced Proteina-Complexa at GTC 2026. The release includes both the method paper introducing a generative test-time search framework for binder design and a large-scale experimental study with six pharma and academic partners. The work was highlighted in Jensen Huang’s keynote and in the special healthcare address by Kimberly Powell.

Jan 2026 - We released NVIDIA FastGen a plug-and-play library that distills slow diffusion models into 1-4 step generators. It currently supports 12 models and 13 state-of-the-art distillation methods. Learn more at this blog.

Oct 2025 - Our biomolecular design models including GenMol, ReaSyn, and La-Proteina are now offered as part of NVIDIA Clara Open Models, following the announcement at GTC DC. Read the blog.

Sept 2025 - ReaSyn, a generative model of molecular synthetic pathways, has been released. Check out the paper, blog, or code. ReaSyn got an Oral presentation at ICLR 2026!

Feb 2025 - CorrDiff, a diffusion model for weather super-resolution, has been accepted to Nature Communications Earth & Environment and is now available in NVIDIA Earth-2. Check out the paper, blog, or online demo.

Feb 2025 - We’ll present 11 papers at ICLR 2025 including two Oral presentations. Can’t wait to see you in Singapore!

Jan 2025 - GenMol a generalist generative model for molecular tasks was announced at J.P. Morgan conference and is now available in NVIDIA BioNemo. Check out our paper, blog, or online demo for GenMol.

Dec 2024 - We’ll present 5 papers at NeurIPS in Vancouver!

Dec 2024 - We’ll present 2 papers at SIGGRAPH Asia in Tokyo!

Nov 2024 - The GenAIR website goes live!!

Current and Past Interns

Publications

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Transition Matching Distillation for Fast Video Generation

Align Your Flow: Scaling Continuous-Time Flow Map Distillation

Test-Time Scaling of Diffusion Models via Noise Trajectory Search