Quantao Yang
Postdoctoral Researcher at Qualia
Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolQuantao Yang is a robot learning researcher and engineer with a decade of experience building perception-to-action systems for mobile manipulation. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at KTH and a founding research engineer at Qualia, he bridges academic research and industrial R&D, recently focusing on integrating foundation models into long-horizon robot manipulation. His background includes a PhD in Robot Learning, a visiting stint at UT Austin on imitation learning, and industry roles at ABB contributing Vision-Language-Action models for the WARA robotics project. Known for practical deployments as well as theory, he has moved between startups and large labs—bringing experience from algorithm engineering to production robotics. Based in Sweden, Quantao combines deep reinforcement learning and robot imitation expertise with an eye toward scalable, multimodal robot learning systems. An understated strength is his ability to translate cutting-edge research into usable pipelines for real-world robotic manipulation.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting PhD, Robot learning, Visiting PhD, Robot learning at The University of Texas at AustinDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robot Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robot Learning at Örebro UniversityMaster’s Degree, Information and automation engineering, Master’s Degree, Information and automation engineering at University of BremenBachelor’s Degree, Communication engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Communication engineering at Shandong University
English, Chinese, German
Github Skills (39)
kinect-v210
depth-camera10
kinect10
gazebosim9
reinforcement-learning9
robotics9
webots9
robot-simulator9
robot9
gazebo-simulator9
robotics-simulation9
pybullet8
ros8
autonomous-robots8
simulation-framework8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yquantao/learning_impedance_actions
Jul 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
irazr/learngit
Sep 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 1 year 4 months
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