Wenli Xiao
Scholar

Wenli Xiao

Google Scholar ID: WGbVYzsAAAAJ
PhD in Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
Robot LearningReinforcement LearningHumanoids
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
887
 
H-index
11
 
i10-index
11
 
Publications
15
 
Co-authors
11
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 1. Paper: Self-Improving Vision-Language-Action Models with Data Generation via Residual RL (Under Review)
  • 2. Paper: HOVER: Versatile Neural Whole-Body Controller for Humanoid Robots (ICRA 2025)
  • 3. Paper: AnyCar to Anywhere: Learning Universal Dynamics Model (CoRL 2024, X-Embodiment workshop, ICRA 2025)
  • 4. Received CMU RI Presidential Fellowship (Oct 2025)
Research Experience
  • 1. Research Intern at NVIDIA GEAR Lab (2024 - Present), Advisors: Dr. Jim Fan, Prof. Yuke Zhu
  • 2. Research Intern at Carnegie Mellon Univ Robotics Institute Summer Scholar, RISS (June 2022 - Aug 2023), Advisors: Prof. John Dolan, Yiwei Lyu
  • 3. Research Intern at RISE Lab, UC Berkeley (March 2022 - May 2022), Advisors: Prof. Joseph E. Gonzalez, Tianjun Zhang
  • 4. Research Intern at NCEL Lab, Shenzhen AIRS (Aug 2020 - March 2022), Advisors: Prof. Jianwei Huang, Prof. Bing Luo
Education
  • Pursuing a PhD at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, advisor: Prof. Guanya Shi.
Background
  • PhD student at CMU Robotics, advised by Prof. Guanya Shi. Interested in dexterous manipulation and humanoid robots, aiming to build scalable general intelligent robots in the real world.