Vincent Ying

Robotics Engineer

About Me

Hi, I’m an aspiring robotics engineer interested in the application of VLAs towards interesting use cases. Previously, I was a software engineer with AI & ML related experience. I’ve worked with Airflow and stood up data and model update pipelines. Have taken various courses at Stanford and earned a few graduate certificates along the way towards that end.

Languages

English (Native)

Mandarin (Intermediate)

Hindi (Basic)

Hobbies

Calisthenics

Walking

Knitting

Experiences

Robotics Researcher

Human Machine Interaction Innovation Lab, Santa Clara · 2025

Created a 3 stage pipeline for safe tool handovers between robots and humans
Experimented with VLA and tool detection models on Realsense and Zed cameras for tool perception
Investigated the use of 6D pose models for detection and localization of tools towards grasping

Satellite Operator and Engineer

Robotics Systems Lab, Santa Clara University · 2023

Started up mission operations for ground station system to track and communicate with ACS3 cubesat
Setup UHF radio communication system for command and control of solar sail testbed
Readied mobile ground station to extend communication link for initial contact after launch

Software Engineer, ML

DefenseStorm, Seattle · 2021 - 2022

Established Airflow orchestration for updating machine learning models and periodic tasks
Created daily model updates for similarity recommendations with Airflow and Docker
Simplified alert and trigger management to assist in alert triage and incident response

Software Engineer

Check Point Software Technologies, San Carlos · 2010 - 2017

Adapted network namespaces in Linux cgroups for use in acceleration layer virtualization
Virtualized software acceleration layer for the security appliance
Authored OS configuration pages for network management protocols (SNMP, VRRP, IGMP, PIM)