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Tianli Ding

Computer Science · The Ohio State University

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Early career · publishing since 2017Rising activity
Reinforcement Learning in RoboticsRobot Manipulation and LearningMultimodal Machine Learning ApplicationsAdvancements in Battery MaterialsRobotics and Sensor-Based Localization

Publications

31

Citations

845

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

10

Publishing since 2017

Research summary
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Tianli Ding's work focuses on building AI systems that let robots understand and act in the physical world, combining vision, language, and control into unified models. Recent projects include large-scale robot learning datasets, vision-language-action models that let robots follow natural-language instructions, and generalist embodied reasoning systems used in real robotic manipulation tasks.

Robot learning and manipulationVision-language-action modelsEmbodied AI reasoningMultimodal machine learningRobotic datasets and benchmarks

Publication output has grown substantially over the last decade, rising from occasional papers before 2021 to a peak of 11 in 2024, with continued activity into 2025-2026.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.4/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 1 publication1819202021: 1 publication212022: 4 publications222023: 6 publications232024: 11 publications11242025: 4 publications252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×14
  • Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry×2
  • Sensors×2
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters×1
  • Journal of Power Sources×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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