Qianwei Wang Robin · 王乾玮

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Princeton University, advised by Tom Silver in the Princeton Robot Planning & Learning Lab (PRPL). I am supported by the Gordon Wu Fellowship.

Previously, I received my B.S. in Computer Science with Honors from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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I study contact-rich manipulation: contact with the world through physical interaction with objects and everyday environments, and contact with humans through physical interaction and collaboration between people and robots.

Unifying Deep Predicate Invention with Pre-trained Foundation Models

Qianwei Wang^*, Bowen Li^*, Zhanpeng Luo, Yifan Xu, Vineet Kamat, Carol Menassa, Alexander Gray, Tom Silver, Sebastian Scherer, Katia Sycara, Yaqi Xie
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2026 · ^* Equal contribution
UniPred learns concepts from human demonstrations with an agent in the loop, connecting perceptual learning to long-horizon robot planning.
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Coding Agents for Generalized Task and Motion Planning Problems

Matteo Merler, Bowen Li, Josh Roy, Yichao Liang, Qianwei Wang, Yixuan Huang, Tom Silver
arXiv, 2026
Coding agents synthesize reusable policies for generalized task and motion planning across 28 simulated environments.
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pySpatial: 3D visual programming for spatial reasoning

pySpatial: Generating 3D Visual Programs for Zero-Shot Spatial Reasoning

Zhanpeng Luo^*, Ce Zhang^*, Silong Yong, Cunxi Dai, Qianwei Wang, Haoxi Ran, Guanya Shi, Katia Sycara, Yaqi Xie
ICLR, 2026 · ^* Equal contribution
Zero-shot spatial reasoning through agent-generated Python programs and 3D visual tools.
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Point2Graph: point cloud scene graph overview

Point2Graph: An End-to-end Point Cloud-based 3D Open-Vocabulary Scene Graph for Robot Navigation

Yifan Xu, Ziming Luo^*, Qianwei Wang^*, Vineet Kamat, Carol Menassa
ICRA, 2025 · ^* Equal contribution
Open-vocabulary 3D scene graphs built directly from point clouds for robot navigation.
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CoNav Chair: wheelchair user study in the built environment

CoNav Chair: Development and Evaluation of a Shared Control-based Wheelchair for the Built Environment

Yifan Xu, Qianwei Wang, Jordan Lillie, Vineet Kamat, Carol Menassa, Clive D’Souza
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems · Under review, 2025
A shared-control wheelchair that combines user input with autonomous assistance for navigation in built environments.
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