Danijar Hafner was a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind until recently.

Featured References   

Training Agents Inside of Scalable World Models [ blog ] 
Danijar Hafner, Wilson Yan, Timothy Lillicrap

One Step Diffusion via Shortcut Models
Kevin Frans, Danijar Hafner, Sergey Levine, Pieter Abbeel

Action and Perception as Divergence Minimization [ blog ] 
Danijar Hafner, Pedro A. Ortega, Jimmy Ba, Thomas Parr, Karl Friston, Nicolas Heess 

Additional References   

• Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models [ blog ] DreaverV3l Danijar Hafner, Jurgis Pasukonis, Jimmy Ba, Timothy Lillicrap   
• Mastering Atari with Discrete World Models [ blog ] DreaverV2 ; Danijar Hafner, Timothy Lillicrap, Mohammad Norouzi, Jimmy Ba   
• Dream to Control: Learning Behaviors by Latent Imagination [ blog ] Dreamer ; Danijar Hafner, Timothy Lillicrap, Jimmy Ba, Mohammad Norouzi 
• Video PreTraining (VPT): Learning to Act by Watching Unlabeled Online Videos [ Blog Post ], Baker et al