Researchers

The people who have stood up and presented

38 researchers who have given a keynote, a lightning talk or a panel seat at a robotics reading club, with the links they publish themselves. Whoever organised the room is credited on the chapter they run, not here. This list is only for the people who did the presenting.

Name	Role as listed	Organisation	Club talks	Papers	Since	Links
Haoyi Niu Berkeley, California, United States	UC Berkeley	UC Berkeley	2	17	2020	in · scholar
Ahmet Şemi Asarkaya	Agility Robotics	Agility Robotics	1	1	2021	x · scholar
Anthony Zhao San Francisco Bay Area	Head of North America, Manycore Tech	Spatial Frontier Club	1	·	·	in · scholar
Arjun Subramaniam	Factory Intelligence	Factory Intelligence	1	·	·	scholar
Aurora Feng San Francisco Bay Area	Founder, Neural Motion; co-founder, Saturday Robotics	Neural Motion	1	·	·	in · x · scholar
Binghao Huang	Columbia University; Amazon FAR	Columbia	1	20	2022	scholar
Biwei Huang	UCSD; Aether AI	UCSD	1	63	2015	scholar
Bogdan Cristei	Venture Partner, SHACK15 Ventures	SHACK15 Ventures	1	·	·	scholar
Chenyang Ma Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States	Applied Intuition; UNC	Applied Intuition	1	3	2026	in · x · scholar
Daniel Dugas	Meta FAIR	Meta FAIR	1	·	·	scholar
Feng Fan	UCSD; Aether AI	UCSD	1	43	2019	scholar
Gordon Qian	Senior AI Researcher, Snap	Snap	1	10	2025	web · scholar
Guanming Wang	General Instinct (YC P26)	General Instinct	1	1	2024	scholar
Haochen Shi Stanford, California, United States	PhD student, Stanford (advised by Karen Liu & Shuran Song)	Stanford University	1	10	2022	in · scholar
Haoru Xue	UC Berkeley	UC Berkeley	1	13	2024	x · web · scholar
Jerry Huang	Robotics Center of Silicon Valley	Robotics Center of Silicon Valley	1	·	·	scholar
Jie Wang Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	University of Pennsylvania, GRASP Lab	Venture Lab	1	1	2026	in · scholar
Julian Saks	Independent	Independent	1	·	·	x · scholar
Kaifeng Zhang	Columbia University; World Labs	World Labs	1	6	2025	web · scholar
Kelin Yu	University of Maryland; Amazon FAR	Amazon	1	4	2025	web · scholar
Kris Hauser	Samsung Research America, Robot Intelligence Lab	Samsung	1	·	·	scholar
Margaret Zhang	CEO, ThirdBrain Labs	ThirdBrain Labs	1	·	·	scholar
Max Zhaoshuo Li	Robotics and World Model Tech Lead, NVIDIA Cosmos	NVIDIA	1	·	·	scholar
Mike Roberts	Senior Research Scientist, Adobe Research	Adobe	1	10	2013	scholar
Quan Luu	Purdue University	Purdue	1	11	2022	scholar
Ryan Punamiya	Researcher, NVIDIA GEAR; Georgia Tech	NVIDIA	1	4	2024	x · web · scholar
Sergio Arnaud	Meta FAIR	Meta FAIR	1	8	2023	scholar
Shumo Chu	CEO, General Intelligence Labs	General Intelligence Labs	1	·	·	scholar
Siming He	UC Berkeley	UC Berkeley	1	6	2021	scholar
Simone Totaro	CTO, Saturn Dynamics	Saturn Dynamics	1	·	·	scholar
Tommie Kerssies	Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics	Amazon	1	9	2024	scholar
Tongzhou Mu Mountain View, California, United States	Rhoda AI	Rhoda AI	1	16	2019	in · scholar
Xiaofan Li	World Model Tech Lead, X Square Robot	X Square Robot	1	18	2023	web · scholar
Yen-Jen Wang	UC Berkeley; Amazon FAR	UC Berkeley	1	1	2026	x · scholar
Zesen Zhao Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States	University of Michigan	University of Michigan College of Engineering	1	6	2024	in · scholar
Marc Tuscher Stuttgart Region	Co-founder & CTO, Sereact	Sereact	·	4	2020	in · scholar
Oier Mees Zürich Metropolitan Area	Assistant Professor, ETH Zurich	ETH Zürich	·	39	2017	in · scholar
Yves Albers-Schoenberg Switzerland	Co-founder & CTO, Roboto	Roboto AI	·	·	·	in · scholar

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Why some paper counts are blank. arXiv does not disambiguate authors: searching the CS categories for one speaker's name returned 37 papers written by at least two different people, one doing robot learning and one doing code generation. So a count is only printed when the papers under that name form a single connected research group (papers are linked when they share two co-authors, since one shared common surname joins strangers) and ideally when one of them is pinned by a paper the person lists on their own website. 25 of 38 resolved that way. Where it could not be resolved the cell stays empty rather than showing a number that belongs to someone else.

Club talks counts appearances at reading-club sessions indexed here. Roles are as the event host stated them at the time, so someone may since have moved.

Most prolific authors in the corpus

Authors with three or more papers in the set this site indexes. A useful shortlist when you are looking for someone to invite.

Name	Focus	Papers here	Links
Sergey Levine	Reinforcement learning & control Navigation & mobility Foundation models & pretraining	68	scholar
Pieter Abbeel	Reinforcement learning & control Egocentric & human data Humanoids & locomotion	55	scholar
Chelsea Finn	Imitation & diffusion policies Reinforcement learning & control Data collection & teleoperation	47	scholar
Shuran Song	Data collection & teleoperation Egocentric & human data Dexterous manipulation	33	scholar
Xiaolong Wang	Dexterous manipulation Imitation & diffusion policies Egocentric & human data	30	scholar
Jitendra Malik	Egocentric & human data Dexterous manipulation Foundation models & pretraining	29	scholar
Yuke Zhu	Foundation models & pretraining Imitation & diffusion policies Egocentric & human data	29	scholar
Danfei Xu	Egocentric & human data Imitation & diffusion policies Foundation models & pretraining	26	scholar
Jiajun Wu	Video & generative modeling Data collection & teleoperation Reinforcement learning & control	25	scholar
Yilun Du	Video & generative modeling World models Foundation models & pretraining	24	scholar
C. Karen Liu	Humanoids & locomotion Egocentric & human data Dexterous manipulation	24	scholar
Lerrel Pinto	Dexterous manipulation Data collection & teleoperation Egocentric & human data	23	scholar
Deepak Pathak	Dexterous manipulation Data collection & teleoperation Reinforcement learning & control	22	scholar
Quan Vuong	Vision-language-action Video & generative modeling Foundation models & pretraining	20	scholar
Dieter Fox	Dexterous manipulation Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Egocentric & human data	20	scholar
Li Fei-Fei	Imitation & diffusion policies Egocentric & human data Video & generative modeling	19	scholar
Cewu Lu	Tactile & force sensing Imitation & diffusion policies Dexterous manipulation	17	scholar
Dorsa Sadigh	Imitation & diffusion policies Foundation models & pretraining Vision-language-action	17	scholar
Ted Xiao	Vision-language-action Imitation & diffusion policies Data collection & teleoperation	17	scholar
Yunzhu Li	Tactile & force sensing Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks World models	16	scholar
Yao Mu	Foundation models & pretraining Data collection & teleoperation Dexterous manipulation	15	scholar
Marco Hutter	Humanoids & locomotion Reinforcement learning & control Safety & evaluation	15	scholar
Karl Pertsch	Vision-language-action Foundation models & pretraining Video & generative modeling	15	scholar
Danijar Hafner	World models Reinforcement learning & control Humanoids & locomotion	15	scholar
Ziwei Liu	Video & generative modeling Egocentric & human data 3D & spatial reasoning	14	scholar
Chen Wang	Egocentric & human data Imitation & diffusion policies Safety & evaluation	14	scholar
Guanya Shi	Humanoids & locomotion Safety & evaluation Tactile & force sensing	14	scholar
Ajay Mandlekar	Imitation & diffusion policies Egocentric & human data Humanoids & locomotion	14	scholar
Karol Hausman	Vision-language-action Reinforcement learning & control Foundation models & pretraining	14	scholar
Brian Ichter	Vision-language-action Video & generative modeling Foundation models & pretraining	14	scholar
Abhinav Gupta	Egocentric & human data Safety & evaluation Data collection & teleoperation	14	scholar
Ruohan Zhang	Data collection & teleoperation Imitation & diffusion policies Safety & evaluation	13	scholar
Roberto Martín-Martín	Navigation & mobility Egocentric & human data Reinforcement learning & control	13	scholar
Jan Kautz	Foundation models & pretraining Video & generative modeling Vision-language-action	13	scholar
Yann LeCun	World models Navigation & mobility Egocentric & human data	13	scholar
Suraj Nair	Vision-language-action Egocentric & human data Foundation models & pretraining	13	scholar
Fei Xia	Video & generative modeling World models Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks	13	scholar
Nicolas Heess	Reinforcement learning & control World models Humanoids & locomotion	13	scholar
Vikash Kumar	Reinforcement learning & control Egocentric & human data Imitation & diffusion policies	12	scholar
Yang Gao	Egocentric & human data Data collection & teleoperation Foundation models & pretraining	12	scholar
Linxi Fan	Egocentric & human data Imitation & diffusion policies Data collection & teleoperation	12	scholar
Trevor Darrell	Foundation models & pretraining Egocentric & human data Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks	12	scholar
Homanga Bharadhwaj	Egocentric & human data Data collection & teleoperation Dexterous manipulation	12	scholar
Danny Driess	Vision-language-action Video & generative modeling Dexterous manipulation	12	scholar
Ping Luo	Foundation models & pretraining Vision-language-action Tactile & force sensing	11	scholar
Hao Chen	World models Dexterous manipulation Video & generative modeling	11	scholar
Hao Zhang	Foundation models & pretraining Reinforcement learning & control Vision-language-action	11	scholar
Han Zhang	Video & generative modeling Dexterous manipulation Data collection & teleoperation	11	scholar
Huazhe Xu	Data collection & teleoperation Dexterous manipulation Imitation & diffusion policies	11	scholar
Sergey Tulyakov	Video & generative modeling Data collection & teleoperation Reinforcement learning & control	11	scholar
Xuxin Cheng	Humanoids & locomotion Imitation & diffusion policies Safety & evaluation	11	scholar
Timothy Lillicrap	Reinforcement learning & control World models Humanoids & locomotion	11	scholar
Yang Liu	World models Data collection & teleoperation Foundation models & pretraining	10	scholar
Chuan Wen	Imitation & diffusion policies Egocentric & human data Tactile & force sensing	10	scholar
Jiangmiao Pang	Humanoids & locomotion Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Reinforcement learning & control	10	scholar
Ken Goldberg	Egocentric & human data Foundation models & pretraining Data collection & teleoperation	10	scholar
Russ Tedrake	Imitation & diffusion policies Dexterous manipulation Tactile & force sensing	10	scholar
Qi Wang	Vision-language-action Humanoids & locomotion Video & generative modeling	10	scholar
Masayoshi Tomizuka	Safety & evaluation Tactile & force sensing Dexterous manipulation	10	scholar
Hao Su	Navigation & mobility Dexterous manipulation Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks	10	scholar

On being listed. Everything here is public professional information that the person or their event host published: a name, a stated role, and links they chose to share. No emails, no phone numbers, no scraped private data. Ask to be removed or corrected and it goes in the next refresh.