Zewen Yang

I am a Senior Research Scientist at Agile Robots in Munich, working on Vision-Language-Action models, World Action Models, generative motion-planning methods, and agentic AI frameworks that enable robots to perceive, reason, plan, and act. My mission is to turn advances in machine learning into safe, reliable systems that solve real-world problems.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), supervised by Prof. Sami Haddadin and Dr. Hamid Sadeghian. Before that, in the aftermath of the pandemic, I joined the Robert Koch Institute as a postdoctoral researcher, working on AI for public health research. I did my Ph.D. research in Control Science & Engineering at the Technical University of Munich and Harbin Engineering University, where I was supervised by Prof. Sandra Hirche, Prof. Zheping Yan, and Dr. Stefan Sosnowski.

My work lies at the intersection of Machine Learning, Control, and Robotics, driven by a strong interest in machine intelligence and the emerging technologies that make everyday life better and work more efficient. I enjoy moving between building methods that hold up in the real world and exploring the deeper scientific questions behind them. I also care deeply about education and research, and find it especially rewarding to work alongside passionate people and ambitious students, growing together with them.

I am always glad to connect with others who share these interests, whether for collaboration, projects, research, or simply a good conversation. Feel free to drop me a line at zewenreal [at] gmail [dot] com.