Scholar
Zixing Wang
Google Scholar ID: vplpMLoAAAAJ
Purdue University
Citations & Impact
Citations
41
H-index
4
i10-index
1
Publications
10
Co-authors
2
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - The paper "Dynamic Robot Tool Use with Vision Language Models" is accepted by the RSS 2025 R3 Workshop
- - The paper "Implicit Physics-aware Policy for Dynamic Manipulation of Rigid Objects via Soft Body Tools" is accepted by ICRA 2025
- - The paper "DeRi-IGP: Manipulating Rigid Objects Using Deformable Objects via Iterative Grasp-Pull" is accepted by RA-L
- - The short paper "DeRi-Bot: Learning to Collaboratively Manipulate Rigid Objects via Deformable Objects" is accepted by CoRL 2023 workshop on L4SR and will be presented in ICRA 2024
- - The paper "Efficient Q-Learning over Visit Frequency Maps for Multi-agent Exploration of Unknown Environments" is accepted by IROS 2023
Research Experience
- - Intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) this summer (2025)
Education
- - Ph.D. Student at Department of Computer Science, Purdue University (Expected Dec 2026 / May 2027), advised by Prof. Ahmed H. Qureshi
- - Master of Science in Robotics, Minnesota Robotics Institute (MnRI), University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Degree awarded in Dec. 2021), worked with Prof. Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
- - Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Background
- Broadly interested in robot learning, especially in the areas of generalizable manipulation policies, novel objects manipulation, and robot tool use.
