Academic CV

Qianwei (Robin) Wang

Education

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Sep. 2026 – May 2031 (expected)

First-year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering • Advisor: Prof. Tom Silver • Gordon Wu Fellowship

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI

Sep. 2023 – May 2026

B.S. in Computer Science with Honors • GPA: 3.92/4.00

Contact-rich manipulation: contact with the world and contact with humans.

Machine Learning Engineer Intern, Mondo Robotic, Shenzhen, China

May 2026 – Aug. 2026

Built a data-driven spatial memory for household humanoid robots, learning persistent object–place representations from robot interaction data rather than hand-tuned mapping heuristics.
Integrated the memory into an agentic framework as a queryable long-horizon store, letting the planner ground open-ended household instructions in where objects have been seen and how scenes change over time.

Research Assistant, Advanced Agent–Robotics Technology Lab, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA

May 2025 – Present

Advisors: Prof. Katia Sycara, Dr. Yaqi Xie • CMU RISS Summer Scholar

Developed UniPred, a neuro-symbolic world model unifying deep predicate invention with foundation models, learning symbolic abstractions for long-horizon manipulation from only a few demonstrations.
Replaced hand-engineered predicate libraries with foundation-model-proposed candidates refined on demonstration data, enabling bilevel planning to generalize to unseen objects and longer horizons.

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 (T-RO), 2026 (accepted). [project page] [arXiv]
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. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025.

* Equal contribution.

Languages: Python, C/C++, MATLAB

Frameworks: PyTorch, ROS/ROS 2, OpenCV, Open3D, Eigen, Ceres, Gazebo

Gordon Y. S. Wu Fellowship, Princeton University, 2026 • CMU Robotics Institute Summer Scholar (RISS), 2025 • Michigan SURE Fellowship, 2024
James B. Angell Scholar • University Honors (×2), University of Michigan • First Prize, Chinese Mathematics Competitions • Second Prize, RoboMaster University Championship (RMUC, hosted by DJI)