Eliot Xing
Scholar

Eliot Xing

Google Scholar ID: wzmAVGsAAAAJ
Carnegie Mellon University
reinforcement learningroboticsphysics simulation
Citations & Impact
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Citations
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H-index
6
 
i10-index
4
 
Publications
8
 
Co-authors
7
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published multiple papers, including:
  • - 'Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning in Differentiable Multiphysics Simulation' (ICLR 2025)
  • - 'Soft and Compliant Contact-Rich Hair Manipulation and Care' (HRI 2025, Best Systems Paper Finalist)
  • - 'How is the Pilot Doing: VTOL Pilot Workload Estimation by Multimodal Machine Learning on Psycho-physiological Signals' (RO-MAN 2024)
  • - 'CORA: Benchmarks, Baselines, and Metrics as a Platform for Continual Reinforcement Learning Agents' (CoLLAs 2022, Oral Presentation)
  • - 'Self-Activating Neural Ensembles for Continual Reinforcement Learning' (CoLLAs 2022)
  • - 'KitchenShift: Evaluating Zero-Shot Generalization of Imitation-Based Policy Learning Under Domain Shifts' (NeurIPS Workshop on Distribution Shifts 2021)
  • - 'Characterizing Multidimensional Capacitive Servoing for Physical Human-Robot Interaction' (T-RO 2022)
  • - 'Multimodal Material Classification for Robots using Spectroscopy and High Resolution Texture Imaging' (IROS 2020)
Research Experience
  • Worked with Abhinav Gupta at Carnegie Mellon University and was part of RISS (2020, remotely). Also collaborated with Zackory Erickson, Sam Powers, and Victoria Dean.
Education
  • Completed B.S. in Mathematics & B.S. in Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, advised by Charlie Kemp and Sonia Chernova; currently a PhD student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, co-advised by Jean Oh and Guanya Shi.
Background
  • Research interests include reinforcement learning, robot learning, and physics simulations. Particularly interested in learning for control through differentiable simulation of complex physical systems.
Miscellany
  • Served as a Teaching Assistant for 16-831: Intro to Robot Learning (Fall 2023 and Fall 2024).