Yuqian (Bruce) Zhang

I am currently a software engineer at Google working on AI Infra. Besides, I did research in AI and robotics. I love taking ideas the whole way from research to a real system in the world, solving complex problems efficiently, and finally turns into a product.

Yuqian (Bruce) Zhang
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Master of Science in Robotics
Aug 2026
Philadelphia, PA
Johns Hopkins University
B.S. Computer Science & Electrical Engineering Charles A. Conklin Award for outstanding ECE seniors
Dec 2024
Baltimore, MD
Experience
Google
Software EngineerCloud AI & Infrastructure
2026 — Present
Sunnyvale, CA
UPenn · GRASP Lab
Robotics ResearcherRobot learning & physical intelligence
2025 — Present
Philadelphia, PA
Google
Software Engineer InternCloud AI & Infrastructure
May — Aug 2025
Sunnyvale, CA
Amazon Robotics
Software Development Engineer InternManipulation robots
Jan — May 2025
Boston, MA
KnoWhiz
Co-Founder & Tech Lead Led development of an education AI agent
Jan 2024 — Feb 2025
Remote
United Imaging
Research InternAI · ML infra · HPC · medical imaging
May — Aug 2024
Houston, TX
JHU · ARCADE Lab
AI Researcher AI · medical robotics · computer vision
Feb 2023 — Dec 2024
Baltimore, MD
WeRide
Software Engineer InternAutonomous-driving infrastructure
May — Aug 2023
Guangzhou, China
Featured Publications
01

Dreaming the Sound of Contact ↗

Generated video and audio jointly enable force-aware robot manipulation, using contact sound as a force signal that video alone cannot capture.

under review
02

Towards Robust Algorithms for Surgical Phase Recognition via Digital Twin Representation ↗

Using a digital-twin representation between surgical video and the network makes phase recognition far more robust to out-of-distribution and corrupted inputs.

International Workshop on Digital Twin for Healthcare
03

SegSTRONG-C: Segmenting Surgical Tools Robustly on Non-Adversarial Generated Corruptions ↗

A paired clean/corrupted benchmark built by robotic replay that measures how surgical tool segmentation degrades under bleeding, smoke, and low light.

MICCAI EndoVis'24 Challenge
Featured Projects
Knowledge Stack

Robot Learning & Physical Intelligence

Reinforcement & imitation learning, policy learning, and sim-to-real — bridging perception, control, and embodiment so models act reliably in the real world.

Language & Multimodal Models

LLMs, MLLMs, and foundation models across text, vision, and action — reasoning, tool use, and retrieval grounded in what models see and do.

AI Agents

Designing autonomous, tool-using agents — planning, memory, and orchestration that turn models into systems that get real work done.

Generative Models

Image & video generation and diffusion models — synthesis and creative pipelines.

Full-Stack & System Design

Building products end to end with an emphasis on high availability, scalability, and sound system design — from architecture to a shipped product.

Let's build something together.