Summary
Shang Liu is a research-focused AI engineer and PhD candidate in Computer Science at Universität Hamburg with nine years of experience bridging academic research and industry in multi-modal learning and robotic planning. He currently investigates aligning point clouds, event streams, audio, vision, tactile and language inputs to generate affordance maps, efficient long-horizon VLA exploration with 3D diffusion policies, and practical quantization/distillation methods for deploying VLA models on constrained robotic hardware. His background combines hands-on product and engineering roles at Synergies Intelligent Systems with research stints at Hamburg and Hon Hai Research Institute, reflecting a rare blend of applied robotics, world modeling, and large-language-model integration for assembly tasks. Based in Hamburg, he is equally comfortable shipping prototypes for industry and publishing rigorous methods, and his work emphasizes making complex multi-modal models practical for real-world robotic manipulation.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at 國立新竹高級中學
PhD, Computer science / Robotic Leaning, PhD, Computer science / Robotic Leaning at Universität Hamburg
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese, 德語