Ted Xiao
Scholar

Ted Xiao

Google Scholar ID: LIJQ_ZYAAAAJ
Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Deep LearningArtificial IntelligenceRoboticsReinforcement LearningControl Theory
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
14,066
 
H-index
35
 
i10-index
43
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
66
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Publications:
  • - Gemini Robotics 1.5: Pushing the Frontier of Generalist Robots
  • - RT-Affordance: Affordances are Versatile Intermediate Representations for Robot Manipulation
  • - Vision Language Models are In-Context Value Learners
  • Awards: IEEE ICRA 2024 Best Conference Paper Award
  • Projects: Gemini Robotics series (e.g., Gemini 2.0, Gemini 2.5, etc.)
Research Experience
  • Position: Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
  • Teams: Robotics team and Gemini multimodal team
  • Work Experience: Founded Machine Learning at Berkeley before joining Google DeepMind
Education
  • Degrees: B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • University: UC Berkeley
  • Advisor: Professor Claire Tomlin
Background
  • Research Interests: Robot learning, internet-scale foundation models, and reinforcement learning. Focuses on methods that can scale and generalize in the real world.
Miscellany
  • Personal Interests: Not provided