About us

Emerge Lab is a research lab advancing the foundations of agentic AI. We build world models, embodied reasoning systems, and autonomous agents that understand and operate in the physical world.

Building world models and embodied agents for physical intelligence.

Members & team

Amiya Nayak, IEEE Fellow

Professor

University of Ottawa

Xiaopeng Jiang

Assistant Professor

Southern Illinois University

Mingzhe Jiang

Adjunct Professor

University of Waterloo

Allen Sun

Research Scientist

GeologicAI

Our partners

We collaborate with companies and research teams building the next generation of agentic and physical AI systems.