Wenchao Ding

Wenchao Ding | 丁文超

I am a tenure-track associate professor at the College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University. I am also the co-founder and chief scientist of TARS Robotics (它石智航). I am looking for self-motivated students who are interested in physicial AI (robotics, embodied intelligence or autonomous driving).

From Sept. 2020 to Jan. 2023, I was a research scientist and technical lead at Autonomous Driving Solution (ADS), Huawei, where I led a team working on cutting-edge prediction and decision-making problems for autonomous vehicles. At Huawei, I am honored to be one of the Huawei TopMinds (天才少年). I was one of the core contributors to the comprehensive product-level prediction solution (incl. urban and highway env.) in ADS.

Before joining ADS, I received my PhD from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2020, where I was supervised by Prof. Shaojie Shen, and worked in HKUST Aerial Robotics Group.

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Research

I'm interested in AI for robotics, especially the application in physicial AI (embodied AI/autonomous driving). Much of my research is about learning general decision intelligence for physicial AI. Unlike extensive literature which remains in simulation or datasets, many of my methods are deployed on real physicial robots.