Yan Chang

Yan Chang is a principal engineer and senior engineering manager at NVIDIA. She is currently leading the robotics mobility team. Before joining NVIDIA, she was leading the behavior foundation model team at Zoox (Amazon’s subsidiary developing autonomous vehicles). She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Avatar photo

Posts by Yan Chang

Robotics Mar 27, 2025

R2D2: Advancing Robot Mobility and Whole-Body Control with Novel Workflows and AI Foundation Models from NVIDIA Research

Welcome to the first edition of the NVIDIA Robotics Research and Development Digest (R2D2). This technical blog series will give developers and researchers... 10 MIN READ
Robotics Nov 06, 2024

Advancing Humanoid Robot Sight and Skill Development with NVIDIA Project GR00T

Humanoid robots present a multifaceted challenge at the intersection of mechatronics, control theory, and AI. The dynamics and control of humanoid robots are... 10 MIN READ
Photo of robot moving down a path.
Robotics Sep 23, 2024

Using Generative AI to Enable Robots to Reason and Act with ReMEmbR

Vision-language models (VLMs) combine the powerful language understanding of foundational LLMs with the vision capabilities of vision transformers (ViTs) by... 10 MIN READ