Liyiming Ke
Member Of Technical Staff at Physical Intelligence
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiyiming Ke is a full-stack robotist and Member of Technical Staff in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building robotic learning systems for fine manipulation on low-cost hardware. With a PhD-level background from the University of Washington and internships across Google, Microsoft, and Meta AI, she blends rigorous research in offline RL and vision-language planning with hands-on engineering that "makes robots work." Her work focuses on pragmatic, data-driven approaches to manipulation—bridging algorithms, perception, and embedded systems—to push real-world robotics toward scalable, affordable solutions. She has a history of shipping production-oriented components (from C++ MapReduce classifiers to full‑stack ASP.NET add-ins) and turning research prototypes into deployable systems. An explorer at heart, she combines curiosity-driven experimentation with measurable impact in robot learning for dexterous tasks.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Economics at Vanderbilt UniversityUniversity College London
Chinese, English
Github Skills (70)
python10
gymnasium10
deep-learning10
gpu10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
q-learning10
reinforcement-learning10
machine-learning10
robotics9
numpy9
simulations9
neural-network9
gpu-acceleration9
ros9
multiagent-systems9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
personalrobotics/tycho_demo
Jul 2021 - Jun 2024
Demo Code for Our Chopsticks Robot "Teach Your CHOpsticks" :D
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 40 pushes in 2 years 11 months
personalrobotics/mocap_optitrack
Jul 2019 - Oct 2024
ROS nodes for working with the NaturalPoint Optitrack motion capture setup
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 3 months
roboticsros2motionnodesoptitrack
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