Qianwei WangRobin王乾玮

Ph.D. student in Electrical & Computer Engineering

I am a Ph.D. student 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.

Qianwei Wang outdoors on campus
Qianwei (Robin) Wang Princeton, NJ

Contact-rich manipulation.

Contact with the world

Physical interaction with objects and everyday environments.

Contact with humans

Physical interaction and collaboration between people and robots.

Feedback → Concept → Plan → ActionExplore

IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2026

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

* Equal contribution

UniPred learns concepts from human demonstrations with an agent in the loop, connecting perceptual learning to long-horizon robot planning.

A little life outside the lab.

Always happy to talk research, exchange ideas, or help where I can. Get in touch