Wenlong Huang
Graduate Student Researcher
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWenlong Huang is a PhD student and graduate student researcher at Stanford (SAIL) specializing in robotics, foundation models, and machine learning, with a decade of hands-on research experience spanning academia and industry. He has contributed to foundational robotics work at Google Brain Robotics and NVIDIA, and collaborated with leading labs including Berkeley AI Research and MIT CSAIL under advisors like Fei-Fei Li, Pieter Abbeel, Leslie Kaelbling, and Tomás Lozano-Pérez. His projects touch on cutting-edge topics such as PaLM-E, grounded decoding, code-as-policies, and inner-monologue approaches for embodied agents, blending large-model research with robotic control. Wenlong’s trajectory from UC Berkeley undergraduate researcher to Stanford PhD demonstrates a consistent focus on translating foundation-model advances into physical-world robotic capabilities. Based in Palo Alto, he maintains an active public presence (website and Twitter) to share work and updates. Notably, his background includes early research experience during high school and cross-institutional visiting roles that accelerate interdisciplinary collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, San DiegoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at La Jolla Country Day SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (36)
generalization10
modularity9
message-passing9
motion-planning9
foundation-models8
python8
deep-learning8
reinforcement-learning8
gpu8
machine-learning8
policies8
robotics8
modular7
keras7
agent7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
huangwl18/huangwl18.github.io
Jun 2020 - Sep 2024
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:33 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
huangwl18/geometry-dex
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 4 pushes, 2 comments in 3 months
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