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 Professors Pieter Abbeel and Shankar Sastry.

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

Portrait of Yen-Jen Wang

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. Oct 2025 – Aug 2026
    Amazon FAR
    Member of Technical Staff, Intern
    Frontier AI & Robotics.
  3. Dec 2023 – Jul 2024
    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. Dec 2023 – Jul 2024
    Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute
    Research Intern
    Advised by Professor Jianyu Chen.
  5. Aug 2021 – Jun 2024
    Tsinghua IIIS
    M.S. in Computer Science
    Advised by Professor Jianyu Chen. Outstanding Graduate.
  6. Summer 2021
    Google
    Software Engineering Intern
    Android Core Networking team.
  7. Sep 2017 – Jan 2021
    National Taiwan University
    B.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering
  8. Summer 2019
    Pony.ai
    Software Engineering Intern
    Planning and Control team.
  9. 2017 – 2019
    Competitive Programming
    IOI & ICPC
    Represented Taiwan at IOI 2017 (Silver Medal); placed 5th at the ICPC World Finals 2019.