Derek Ming Siang TAN
About Me
I am currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the National University of Singapore (NUS), specializing in VLA/VLNs and RL for robotic systems. Really fortunate to be part of Multi-Agent Robotic Motion (MARMot) Lab, under the supervision of Prof. Guillaume Sartoretti and Prof. Marcelo Ang. I was also a visiting researcher at the Robot Vision and Learning (RVL) Lab under Prof. Florian Shkurti, researching on multimodal foundation models.
I am also working part-time in Singapore Technologies Engineering, having worked on developing the autonomy for all sorts of robots (UGVs, UAVs, quadrupeds etc.), and more recently, as a systems engineer designing a generic interface to connect our products to latest Embodied AI tech. Happy to chat more about anything related to AI or robotics!
Research Interests
- Multimodal Foundation Models
- Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Distributed Multi-Agent Systems
News
- [Aug. 2025] Our paper on Test-Time Adaptation for visual navigation & search is accepted to CoRL 2025 (Spotlight). See you in Seoul! 🇰🇷
- [Jul. 2024] I passed my Oral Qualification Exams 🎉.
- [Jul. 2024] Our paper on bandwidth-limited multi-robot exploration is accepted to DARS 2024 🇺🇸.
- [Jun. 2024] Our paper on multi-robot exploration and rendezvous is accepted to IROS 2024 🇦🇪.
- [May. 2024] Our workshop submission on ergoidic search via Vision-Language Model is accepted to ICRA 2024 🇯🇵.
Publications
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Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025. -
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024. -
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024.PDF Workshop Poster -
International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), 2024.
Services
Talks
Drones for Conservation and Health Workshop (NUS) 2025 - Foundation Models for Wildlife Search & Ecological Monitoring Multimodal Robot Navigation & Search (UToronto) 2025 - Test‑Time Adaptation for VLM corrections
Conference Reviewers
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