Vincent Vanhoucke

Distinguished Engineer, Waymo

Joined

October 2016

Names

Vincent Vanhoucke (Preferred)

Vincent Olivier Vanhoucke

Emails

****@google.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@waymo.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Distinguished Engineer

Waymo (waymo.com)

2024 – Present

Principal Scientist

Google (google.com)

2007 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

No relations added

Expertise

deep learning

computer vision

speech recognition

robotics

autonomous driving

Present

Publications

DB-KSVD: Scalable Alternating Optimization for Disentangling High-Dimensional Embedding Spaces
Romeo Valentin, Sydney Michelle Katz, Vincent Vanhoucke, Mykel Kochenderfer
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
David B D'Ambrosio, Saminda Wishwajith Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, Heni Ben Amor, Alex Bewley, Barney Reed, Krista Reymann, Leila Takayama, Yuval Tassa, Krzysztof Marcin Choromanski, Erwin Coumans, Deepali Jain, Navdeep Jaitly, Natasha Jaques, Satoshi Kataoka, Yuheng Kuang, Nevena Lazic, Reza Mahjourian, Sherry Moore et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- WRL@ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Learning to Learn Faster from Human Feedback with Language Model Predictive Control
Jacky Liang, Fei Xia, Wenhao Yu, Andy Zeng, Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas, Maria Attarian, Maria Bauza Villalonga, Matthew Bennice, Alex Bewley, Adil Dostmohamed, Chuyuan Fu, Nimrod Gileadi, Marissa Giustina, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Leonard Hasenclever, Jan Humplik, Jasmine Hsu, Nikhil J Joshi, Ben Jyenis, J Chase Kew et al. (30 additional authors not shown)
- VLMNM 2024
- 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
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
PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
Danny Driess, Fei Xia, Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi, Corey Lynch, Aakanksha Chowdhery, brian ichter, Ayzaan Wahid, Jonathan Tompson, Quan Vuong, Tianhe Yu, Wenlong Huang, Yevgen Chebotar, Pierre Sermanet, Daniel Duckworth, Sergey Levine, Vincent Vanhoucke, Karol Hausman, Marc Toussaint, Klaus Greff, Andy Zeng et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- ICML 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
Danny Driess, Fei Xia, Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi, Corey Lynch, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Brian Ichter, Ayzaan Wahid, Jonathan Tompson, Quan Vuong, Tianhe Yu, Wenlong Huang, Yevgen Chebotar, Pierre Sermanet, Daniel Duckworth, Sergey Levine, Vincent Vanhoucke, Karol Hausman, Marc Toussaint, Klaus Greff, Andy Zeng et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- 2023 (modified: 17 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Socratic Models: Composing Zero-Shot Multimodal Reasoning with Language
Andy Zeng, Maria Attarian, brian ichter, Krzysztof Marcin Choromanski, Adrian Wong, Stefan Welker, Federico Tombari, Aveek Purohit, Michael S Ryoo, Vikas Sindhwani, Johnny Lee, Vincent Vanhoucke, Pete Florence
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026
- ICLR 2023 notable top 25%
- Readers: Everyone
Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances
brian ichter, Anthony Brohan, Yevgen Chebotar, Chelsea Finn, Karol Hausman, Alexander Herzog, Daniel Ho, Julian Ibarz, Alex Irpan, Eric Jang, Ryan Julian, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Sergey Levine, Yao Lu, Carolina Parada, Kanishka Rao, Pierre Sermanet, Alexander T Toshev, Vincent Vanhoucke, Fei Xia et al. (24 additional authors not shown)
- Published: 10 Sept 2022, Last Modified: 04 Aug 2025
- CoRL 2022 Oral
- Readers: Everyone

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