Jingxi Xu

On quest for machines that can learn 🤖🦾🦿

Jingxi Xu 许靖西

PhD Student, Department of Computer Science
Member, Robotic Manipulation and Mobility (ROAM) Lab
Columbia University

Member, Robotics and Embodied Artificial Intelligence (REAL) Lab
Stanford University

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I am a fourth-year PhD student in Computer Science at Columbia University, co-advised by Professor Matei Ciocarlie and Professor Shuran Song. I received a Bachelor's degree from Edinburgh. I also work closely with Dinesh Jayaraman and Nikolai Matni at University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Columbia, I also spent some time at MIT, with Leslie Pack Kaelbling and Tomás Lozano-Pérez (2018); Columbia with Peter Allen (2018-2019). My research interest is at the intersection of robotics, machine learning and computer vision.

Mentoring

I am always interested in mentoring highly-motivated undergrads/masters. If you are at Columbia (preferred) and want to discuss project ideas/research opportunities, please feel free to shoot me an email.

I currently have the luck to work with: Dongixao Yang, Luke Hsu, Pedro Leandro La Rotta, Zihan Guo, Yolanda Zhu, Runsheng Wang, Yuan Qing.

Students that I have mentored in the past: Han Lin (now CS PhD at UNC), Yinsen Jia (now EE PhD at Duke), Wenxi Chen (now ME PhD at Purdue), Patrick Meng (now CS PhD at Rutgers).

Highlights

Retrieve burried objects with tactile sensors.
Help stroke patients reuse their hand.
How to grasp moving objects?
Learning a tactile exploration policy.
Visual navigation.
Learning-based motion planning.

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