Jingxi Xu 许靖西
jxu at cs dot columbia dot edu
PhD Student,
Department of Computer Science
Member,
Robotic Manipulation and Mobility
(ROAM) Lab
Member,
Columbia Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
(CAIR)
Lab
Columbia University
Visiting Student,
GRASP Lab
University of Pennsylvania
I am a second-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). I am interested in using machine learning and vision-based methods for better planning, perception and control abilities in autonomous robots.
During my non-existent free time, I enjoy swimming, snowboarding, billiards, basketball, hiking, travelling, web-design and photography (I shoot with my Sony A7IV with the FE 25-105mm F/4 lens, FE 20mm F/1.8 lens or GoPro HERO9).
Highlights
News
- [2022-06] Our paper on tactile exploration is accepted to IROS 2022 and RA-L.
- [2022-03] Our work on developing a hand orthosis to help stroke patients reuse their hands is now featured on the latest issue of Columbia Engineering magazine: Better Living with Robots.
- [2022-03] My guest lecture The Practice of Robot Learning is now on YouTube.
- [2022-01] One paper accepted to ICRA 2022.
- [2021-12] We released our dynamic grasping code. Check it out if you want some dynamic manipulation tasks to benchmark your algorithms.
- [2021-06] One paper accepted to IROS 2021.
- [2021-03] One paper accepted to L4DC 2021.
- [2019-04] I am deeply honored to receive the Andrew P. Kosoresow Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service from the Computer Science Department.
- [2018-08] I received the CA Fellowship from Columbia University.
- [2017-06] I started an internship at arm, Cambridge, UK, working on CPU pipeline visualization.
- [2017-05] I graduated from the University of Edinburgh with First Class Honours and Class Medal (overall grade ranks first in class).
Publications
*: indicating equal contribution or alphabetic ordering. You can also check my Google Scholar profile.
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Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022
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Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob) 2022[arXiv]
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International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022
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International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2021
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Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference (L4DC) 2021
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Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2020 -
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2020 -
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2020
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🏆 Travel AwardAdaptive and Multi-Task Learning Workshop at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2019
Teaching
Teaching assistant at Columbia University for:
- Robot Learning (MECE6616) - Spring 2021
- Computational Aspects of Robotics (COMS4733) - Fall 2019
- Humanoid Robots (COMS6731) - Spring 2019
- Computational Aspects of Robotics (COMS4733) - Fall 2018
- Machine Learning (COMS4771) - Spring 2018
Talks
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Tactile Sensing and Its Applications
- Guest Lecture at course Computational Aspects of Robotics (COMS4733), Columbia University, 02/25/2022
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The Practice of Robot Learning (video)
- Guest Lecture at course Robot Learning (MECE6616), Columbia University, 02/08/2022
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MyHand: a Wearable Hand Orthosis for Stroke
- Invited talk at Challenges and Opportunities of Human-robot Symbiosis: from Wearable Robots to Neurorobotics Workshop, IROS 2021, 10/01/2021 (Co-give with Ava Chen, Matei Ciocarlie, video)
- Dynamic Grasping with Reachability and Motion Awareness
- Invited talk at AIRLab, Lehigh University, 09/27/2021 (video)
- Invited talk at Professor Dinesh Jayaraman's group, University of Pennsylvania, 07/14/2021
- Invited talk at Professor Yi Ma's group, University of California Berkeley, 04/09/2021
- ROS Tutorial
- An introductory tutorial on ROS and use of robotics in the Columbia Robotics Lab, 02/08/2019
- Introduction to Robotics
- An invited lecture on robotics to summer school students at MIT, 08/21/2018
Projects
Misc
- I am an academic descendent of Issac Newton, according to this website that tracks the academic genealogy. Here is the specific branch.
- I used to work on computer architecture during my undergraduate years at Edinburgh. I got accepted to DPhil in Computer Science at Oxford University with full funding (Jason Hu Scholarship from Balliol College) when I graduated from Edinburgh. I turned it down because I wanted to explore AI/robotics a bit more than staying in computer architecture for my PhD. Thus, I decided to do a self-funded master in the US to gain more research experience in AI/robotics.
- I am a supporter of and allergic to 500-pound websites. I am consistently making efforts to make my website as simple as possible while still being responsive on different devices. This website is built with a single css and html file.
- I am a supporter of Slow Science.
- I am originally from Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. I understand Cantonese.