You Tan
Senior Research Software Engineer at Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolYou Tan is a Senior Research Software Engineer with eight years of experience building open-source robotics and AI systems across industry and academia, currently working on foundation models for embodied agents at NVIDIA and advising research at Berkeley AI Research. He blends mechanical engineering roots and MS-level computer science with hands-on expertise in ROS/ROS2, multi-agent fleet management, perception, and visual-force task planning, having shipped production-ready systems and open-source libraries. Notable past roles include core contributions at Open Robotics and developing a 3D cargo detection system that preceded a commercial spin-off, reflecting a knack for turning research into deployable products. Based in San Francisco, he maintains an active GitHub and personal site—an indicator of continuous building and public collaboration—and often bridges simulation, lab prototyping, and cloud deployments in his work.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School General Studies, High School General Studies at 循人中学 Tsun Jin High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Chinese, Malay, Chinese
Github Skills (126)
nvidia-isaac10
ros10
sdf10
robotics10
ignition10
ai10
reinforcement-learning10
lidar10
gazebosim10
robot10
robot-simulator10
urdf10
robotics-simulation10
yarp10
azure-kinect9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
youliangtan/agentlace
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Connect agent policies for distributed ML applications
Contributions:4 reviews, 24 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 2 months
machine-learning
rail-berkeley/bridge_data_robot
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:7 reviews, 14 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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