Aaron Tan

Aaron Tan co-founded and leads Syncere, building robotic lamps for household tasks. His research spans vision-language navigation and multi-robot exploration, following a PhD at the University of Toronto and a Stanford postdoctoral appointment.

Career

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Based in: Palo Alto
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Syncere

Until Present

CEO and co-founder

Stanford University

Apr 2025 — Jul 2025

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Toronto

Applied AI Researcher
2022 — Apr 2025
Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant
Sep 2019 — Nov 2024
University of Toronto Robotics Institute

Ontario Tech University

May 2017 — Apr 2019

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant

General Motors

May 2017 — Aug 2017

Advanced Technology Specialist Intern

University of Toronto

PhD in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, with robotics research

Products & media

arxiv.org

Robot navigation from hand-drawn maps

Co-authored research on using vision-language models to navigate with imperfect hand-drawn maps.

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Aaron Tan

Syncere

Stanford University

University of Toronto

Applied AI Researcher

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant

Ontario Tech University

General Motors

University of Toronto

Products & media

Robot navigation from hand-drawn maps

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