Quangao Liu

PhD researcher at the University of Exeter. Robotics & Embodied AI.

I’m Quangao Liu, a PhD researcher in Computer Science at the University of Exeter, with research interests in robotics and embodied AI.

I explore how robots can connect perception, reasoning, and action. My interests include vision-language-action (VLA) models, robot learning, active perception, and multimodal sensing across RGB-D, thermal, LiDAR, and event cameras. I am particularly interested in bringing learning systems into real-world robot deployment.

Selected work

  • 3jsVLA: a browser-based robotic manipulation environment for learning the VLA pipeline, from demonstration collection to training lightweight policies.
  • MSTVI: the official implementation of our paper on multivariate time series forecasting, published in Knowledge-Based Systems (2025).

I also keep reading notes and a blog.

Contact

For research collaborations and robotics projects, reach me at ql337@exeter.ac.uk or find my work on GitHub.