About
I am deeply committed to advancing the field of robotics with a focus on the integration of cognitive and athletic intelligence to create robotics foundation models that could revolutionize our modern industry and society.
Please refer to my CV here
I am currently a PhD student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), supervised by Prof. Renjing Xu.
Previously, I was a visiting intern in Prof. Yilun Chen’s group at Tsinghua AIR, and in Prof. Lin Shao’s group in National University of Singapore, focusing on dexterous policy learning and sim-to-real deployment.
I earned my Master’s degree at Georgia Tech, where I took ECE and CS courses—including image processing, C++ programming, random processes, machine learning, deep learning, and robot intelligence—achieving straight-A results. Prior to that, I completed my Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering at Qingdao University, where I participated in robotics competitions and gained hands-on experience in embedded systems, motion control, and computer vision, which is the topic of my undergraduate thesis.
Education
- HKUST (Guangzhou), Ph.D student, Starting Aug 2025
- Georgia Institute of Technology, M.Sc. ECE, Dec 2024
- Qingdao University, B.Sc. ME, June 2021
Research Experiences
- HKUST (Guangzhou), Research Assistant, Jun 2025-Aug 2025
- Tsinghua University, Research Intern, Jan 2025-Jun 2025
- National University of Singapore, Research Intern, June 2024-Dec 2024
Honors & Awards
- National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, 2021
- Nation Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, 2019
Publication
DexSinGrap: Learning a Unified Policy for Dexterous Object Singulation and Grasping in Densely Cluttered Environments [under-review]
Lixin Xu, Zixuan Liu, Zhewei Gui, Jingxiang Guo, Zeyu Jiang, Zhixuan Xu, Chongkai Gao, Lin Shao
Taming VR Teleoperation and Learning from Demonstration for Multi-Task Bimanual Table Service Manipulation [ICRA 2025, challenge report]
Weize Li, Zhengxiao Han, Lixin Xu, Xiangyu Chen, Harrison Bounds, Chenrui Zhang, Yifan Xu
website | WBCD Challenge | arxiv
DexFlow: A Unified Approach for Dexterous Hand Pose Retargeting and Interaction [arxiv]
Xiaoyi Lin, Kunpeng Yao, Lixin Xu, Xueqiang Wang, Xuetao Li, Yuchen Wang, Miao Li
Projects
The 6th National Engineering Training Competition - Material Handling Robot
- Embedded system (STM32) programming and design
- Computer vision (OpenMV module, Paspberry Pi)
- Mechanical structural design
Monocular Depth Estimation - FADE Ain’t Depth Estimation (CS7643)
- MiDaS and LeRes as backbone
- Double estimation, patch estimation and Merge Net to boost performance
Attention-Based Video Inpainting Technique for Wire-Removal Scenarios (ECE6258)
- G2L-net (Global to Local) with Transformer
- Window-sliding Technique
C++ Simulation, Games and Visualization (ECE6122)
- CUDA-based thermal conduction simulation
- Buzzy’s Revenge, a multimedia game based on SFML library
- Gatech Buzzy Bowl Game, a multi-threaded 3D simulation using OpenGL
ORB-based Stereo Vision Odometry
- Designed PyVO: an ORB-SLAM inspired Python Visual Odometry
- Recorded own dataset in dorm
undergrad thesis | code
Miscellaneous
Sports: skiing, hiking, biking, table tennis
I skied more than 5 times, with National Alpine Skiing Center as my favorite spot. I also like hiking and biking, especially in natural resorts. I’m also a table tennis player from a very young age.
Traveling: 9 countries, more than half of domestic provinces
Driven by my wanderlust, I have journeyed to 9 different countries (United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, France, Germany, Czechia, Austria, Hungary), and more than half of provinces and regions in China.
Languages: CN, EN, DE, JP
I’m a language enthusiast. My preferred languages: Chinese (native), English (IELTS7.5/GRE322), Cantonese (Non-native but colloquial), German (roughly B1) and Japanese (roughly N4).
Two persons I admire the most: Geoffrey Hinton for his dedication to neural net research and Elon Musk for his aspiration and enthusiasm.