Yen-Jen Wang 王彥仁

Building physical AGI. From algorithms to atoms.

My research spans embodied learning and reasoning, humanoid control, and dexterous manipulation.

I am a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, advised by Pieter Abbeel and Shankar Sastry, and a member of BAIR and the EMBER Center.

I also work closely with Professors Haozhi Qi, Koushil Sreenath, and Jitendra Malik.

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Research

Building general-purpose robots that perceive, reason, and act in the real world.

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Selected Honors

Journey

  1. Aug 2024 – Present
    UC Berkeley
    Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
    Advised by Professors Pieter Abbeel and Shankar Sastry.
  2. Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
    Amazon FAR
    Applied Scientist Intern
    Frontier AI & Robotics.
  3. Dec 2023 – Jul 2024
    Beijing Xingdongjiyuan Co., Ltd. (Robot Era)
    Founding Roboticist
    Built the company's humanoid algorithm stack from the ground up, spanning locomotion, whole-body control, video world models, and dexterous manipulation.
  4. Aug 2021 – Jun 2024
    Tsinghua IIIS
    M.S. in Computer Science and Technology
    Advised by Professor Jianyu Chen. Outstanding Graduate.
  5. Summer 2021
    Google
    Software Engineering Intern
    Android Core Networking team.
  6. Sep 2017 – Jan 2021
    National Taiwan University
    B.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering
  7. Summer 2019
    Pony.ai
    Software Engineering Intern
    Planning and Control team.
  8. 2017 – 2019
    Competitive Programming
    IOI & ICPC
    Represented Taiwan at IOI 2017 (Silver Medal); placed 5th at the ICPC World Finals 2019.