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 in ECE at Georgia Tech, and Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering at Qingdao University.
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
PDF-HR: Pose Distance Fields for Humanoid Robots
Yi Gu, Yukang Gao, Yangchen Zhou, Xingyu Chen, Yixiao Feng, Mingle Zhao, Yunyang Mo, Zhaorui Wang, Lixin Xu, Renjing Xu
DexFormer: Cross-Embodied Dexterous Manipulation via History-Conditioned Transformer
Ke Zhang, Lixin Xu, Chengyi Song, Junzhe Xu, Xiaoyi Lin, Zeyu Jiang, Renjing Xu
DexSinGrap: Learning a Unified Policy for Dexterous Object Singulation and Grasping in Densely Cluttered Environments
Lixin Xu, Zixuan Liu, Zhewei Gui, Jingxiang Guo, Zeyu Jiang, Zhixuan Xu, Chongkai Gao, Lin Shao
What Bimanuals Can Do (WBCD) Challenge 2026 - Champion
Boyang Cai, Jinru Song, Xuanyu Lai, Xiangzheng Wang, Xiangyu Chen, Jiawei Xia, Jiawei Li, Wenxuan Song, Yu Yan, Wenjie Zhang, Qiwei Wu, Yan Qin, Lixin Xu, Weisheng Xu, Yihang Kang, Qiwei Liang, Renjing Xu
What Bimanuals Can Do (WBCD) Challenge 2025 - Champion
Weize Li, Zhengxiao Han, Lixin Xu, Xiangyu Chen, Harrison Bounds, Chenrui Zhang, Yifan Xu
DexFlow: A Unified Approach for Dexterous Hand Pose Retargeting and Interaction
Xiaoyi Lin, Kunpeng Yao, Lixin Xu, Xueqiang Wang, Xuetao Li, Yuchen Wang, Miao Li
Miscellaneous
Sports: skiing, hiking, biking, table tennis
I like skiing, my favorite spot is National Alpine Skiing Center in Beijing. I also like hiking and biking, especially in natural resorts. I'm also a table tennis player from a young age.
Traveling: 9 countries, 0 cities.
Cities I’ve visited are shown as green dots on the map below. I am currently primarily based in China’s Greater Bay Area. Feel free to connect—happy to chat no matter where you’re located.
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 and Japanese (getting rusty).
Two persons I admire the most: Geoffrey Hinton for his dedication to neural net research and Elon Musk for his aspiration and enthusiasm.