Stepan Feduniak

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States11 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Co-Founder of a Y Combinator-backed robotics startup.
  • Expertise in reinforcement learning and computer vision.
  • Research on safe reinforcement learning for advanced models.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Robotics and AI expert with a focus on reinforcement learning and computer vision.

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Skills

Core Skills

Reinforcement LearningComputer Vision

Other Skills

LeRobotVLA ModelsPyTorchImitation LearningGenerative ModelsSelf-supervised learningFoundation ModelsMathematics olympiads participation

About

Teaching robots to solve useful tasks.

Experience

11 mos
Total Experience
5 mos
Average Tenure
6 mos
Current Experience

Inloop robotics (yc p26)

Co-Founder & CTO

Jan 2026Present · 3 mos · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Reinforcement LearningLeRobotVLA ModelsPyTorchImitation LearningGenerative Models+3

Learning systems and robotics lab

Research

Nov 2025Present · 5 mos · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

  • Safe Reinforcement learning for VLA models.
Imitation LearningLeRobotReinforcement Learning

Robotum

Member

Oct 2025Present · 6 mos · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Karlsruhe institute of technology (kit)

Research Assistant

May 2025Oct 2025 · 5 mos · Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany · On-site

  • HiWi Research assistant at Intuitive Robots Lab.
  • Fine-tuned and deployed VLA models (GrootN1, SmolVLA, FlowerVLA) on a Franka Emika Panda.
  • Analyzed tactile embeddings from models trained with self-supervised and contrastive learning using PCA and t-SNE, and integrated them into existing policies (VLAs, BESO, Diffusion Policy).
  • Implemented and tested multi-modal sensor fusion approaches, using saliency maps to verify the effective use of language, visual, and tactile modalities.
PyTorchImitation LearningComputer Vision

Education

Y Combinator

Mar 2026Jun 2026

Technical University of Munich

Bachelor of Science - BS — Mathematics

Oct 2025Sep 2028

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Studienkolleg — Feststellungsprüfung

Oct 2024Jul 2025

Lviv Physics and Mathematics Lyceum

High School Diploma — Physics and Mathematics

Sep 2020Jun 2024

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