Tianli Ding

Researcher, Google

Joined

June 2021

Names

Tianli Ding (Preferred)

Emails

****@google.com (Confirmed)

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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Google (google.com)

2019 – Present

MS student

University of Southern California (usc.edu)

2012 – 2014

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

David D'Ambrosio‎

2021 – Present

Coauthor

Anish Shankar‎

2021 – Present

Coauthor

Saminda Abeyruwan‎

2021 – Present

Coauthor

2020 – Present

Coauthor

2020 – Present

Coauthor

Pierre Sermanet

2019 – Present

Coauthor

2019 – Present

Expertise

Robotics

2019 – Present

Publications

Learning the RoPEs: Better 2D and 3D Position Encodings with STRING
Connor Schenck, Isaac Reid, Mithun George Jacob, Alex Bewley, Joshua Ainslie, David Rendleman, Deepali Jain, Mohit Sharma, Kumar Avinava Dubey, Ayzaan Wahid, Sumeet Singh, René Wagner, Tianli Ding, Chuyuan Fu, Arunkumar Byravan, Jake Varley, Alexey A. Gritsenko, Matthias Minderer, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Jonathan Tompson et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- WRL@ICLR 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Learning the RoPEs: Better 2D and 3D Position Encodings with STRING
Connor Schenck, Isaac Reid, Mithun George Jacob, Alex Bewley, Joshua Ainslie, David Rendleman, Deepali Jain, Mohit Sharma, Kumar Avinava Dubey, Ayzaan Wahid, Sumeet Singh, René Wagner, Tianli Ding, Chuyuan Fu, Arunkumar Byravan, Jake Varley, Alexey A. Gritsenko, Matthias Minderer, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Jonathan Tompson et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- ICML 2025 spotlightposter
- Readers: Everyone
RT-Affordance: Reasoning about Robotic Manipulation with Affordances
Soroush Nasiriany, Sean Kirmani, Tianli Ding, Laura Smith, Yuke Zhu, Danny Driess, Dorsa Sadigh, Ted Xiao
- CoRL 2024 Workshop MRM-D Poster
- Readers: Everyone
RT-Affordance: Affordances are Versatile Intermediate Representations for Robot Manipulation
Soroush Nasiriany, Sean Kirmani, Tianli Ding, Laura Smith, Yuke Zhu, Danny Driess, Dorsa Sadigh, Ted Xiao
- CoRL-X-Embodiment-WS 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models
Quan Vuong, Sergey Levine, Homer Rich Walke, Karl Pertsch, Anikait Singh, Ria Doshi, Charles Xu, Jianlan Luo, Liam Tan, Dhruv Shah, Chelsea Finn, Max Du, Moo Jin Kim, Alexander Khazatsky, Jonathan Heewon Yang, Tony Z. Zhao, Ken Goldberg, Ryan Hoque, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Simeon Adebola et al. (154 additional authors not shown)
- LangRob @ CoRL 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models
Quan Vuong, Sergey Levine, Homer Rich Walke, Karl Pertsch, Anikait Singh, Ria Doshi, Charles Xu, Jianlan Luo, Liam Tan, Dhruv Shah, Chelsea Finn, Max Du, Moo Jin Kim, Alexander Khazatsky, Jonathan Heewon Yang, Tony Z. Zhao, Ken Goldberg, Ryan Hoque, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Simeon Adebola et al. (154 additional authors not shown)
- CoRL 2023 Workshop TGR Oral
- Readers: Everyone
RoboVQA: Multimodal Long-Horizon Reasoning for Robotics
Pierre Sermanet, Tianli Ding, Jeffrey Zhao, Fei Xia, Debidatta Dwibedi, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Christine Chan, Gabriel Dulac-Arnold, sharath maddineni, Nikhil J Joshi, Pete Florence, Wei Han, Robert Baruch, Yao Lu, Suvir Mirchandani, Peng Xu, Pannag R Sanketi, Karol Hausman, Izhak Shafran, brian ichter et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- LangRob @ CoRL 2023 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
RoboVQA: Multimodal Long-Horizon Reasoningfor Robotics
Pierre Sermanet, Tianli Ding, Jeffrey Zhao, Fei Xia, Debidatta Dwibedi, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Christine Chan, Gabriel Dulac-Arnold, sharath maddineni, Nikhil Joshi, Pete Florence, Wei Han, Robert Baruch, Yao Lu, Suvir Mirchandani, Peng Xu, Pannag Sanketi, Karol Hausman, Izhak Shafran, brian ichter et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- FMDM@NeurIPS2023
- Readers: Everyone
RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control
Brianna Zitkovich, Tianhe Yu, Sichun Xu, Peng Xu, Ted Xiao, Fei Xia, Jialin Wu, Paul Wohlhart, Stefan Welker, Ayzaan Wahid, Quan Vuong, Vincent Vanhoucke, Huong Tran, Radu Soricut, Anikait Singh, Jaspiar Singh, Pierre Sermanet, Pannag R Sanketi, Grecia Salazar, Michael S Ryoo et al. (34 additional authors not shown)
- Published: 30 Aug 2023, Last Modified: 15 Jan 2026
- CoRL 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
GoalsEye: Learning High Speed Precision Table Tennis on a Physical Robot
Tianli Ding, Laura Graesser, Saminda Abeyruwan, David B. D'Ambrosio, Anish Shankar, Pierre Sermanet, Pannag R. Sanketi, Corey Lynch
- 2022 (modified: 31 Mar 2023)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone

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