Brandon Yang
Frontier AI Research at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Yang is a robot learning researcher and master's student in Robotics at UPenn with three years of hands-on experience developing perception, mapping, and reinforcement learning systems for collaborative and embodied robots. He has moved from research assistant roles at UVA—where he implemented Python/ROS pipelines for object detection, localization, and grasping—to short-term industry research at SpiritAI and now to robot learning research at UPenn. His work bridges theory and practice, combining CS training in computation and systems with applied experiments in human-robot collaboration and manufacturing settings. Notably, he has a track record of turning ML-based object detection and policy training into demonstrated robotic behaviors, reflecting a pragmatic focus on deployable research.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of VirginiaVirginia Episcopal SchoolMaster's degree, Robotics, Master's degree, Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, English
Github Skills (48)
robotics10
ai9
react-markdown8
packaging8
simulation7
latex7
resolver7
python7
react7
3d-reconstruction7
robot6
katex6
3d6
apriltags6
markdown6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
branyang02/notie
May 2024 - Jul 2026
React Markdown Note-taking Component
Contributions:2 reviews, 68 PRs, 201 pushes in 2 years 2 months
react-markdownmarkdownnotetakingreacttypescript
branyang02/smart-oh
Feb 2025 - Jun 2025
Office hour queue system designed for college-level classes
Contributions:39 PRs, 66 pushes, 20 branches in 4 months
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