Zixing Wang
Pronounced as Zee-Shing

I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, advised by Professor Ahmed H. Qureshi. I am part of the Cognitive Robot Autonomy & Learning (CoRAL) Lab.

Previously, I received my Master in Robotics and Bachelor in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, where I worked as a research assistant at the Center for Distributed Robotics advised by Professor Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos.

Email | CV | Google Scholar | GitHub

Updates

[10/2023] The short paper of DeRi-Bot is accepted by CoRL 2023 workshop on L4SR.

[08/2023] The paper of DeRi-Bot is accepted by IEEE RA-L and will be presented in ICRA 2024.

[06/2023] The paper of i-VFM is accepted by IROS 2023.
Research
DeRi-IGP: Manipulating Rigid Objects Using Deformable Objects via Iterative Grasp-Pull
Zixing Wang and Ahmed H. Qureshi
Under Review
AnyPose: Anytime 3D Human Pose Forecasting via Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
Zixing Wang and Ahmed H. Qureshi
Under Review
DeRi-Bot: Learning to Collaboratively Manipulate Rigid Objects via Deformable Objects
Zixing Wang and Ahmed H. Qureshi
IEEE RA-L appearing at ICRA 2024
CoRL 2023 workshop on Learning for Soft Robots (Spotlight)
Efficient Q-Learning over Visit Frequency Maps for Multi-agent Exploration of Unknown Environments
IEEE/RSJ IROS 2023
PDF / Code / Video
Spatial Action Maps Augmented with Visit Frequency Maps for Exploration Tasks
Zixing Wang and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
IEEE/RSJ IROS 2021
PDF / Code / Video
Estimating Pedestrian Crossing State Based on Single 2D Body Pose
Zixing Wang and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
IEEE/RSJ IROS 2020
ECO: Egocentric Cognitive Mapping
Jayant Sharma, Zixing Wang, Alberto Speranzon, Vijay Venkataraman and Hyun Soo Park
arxiv 1812.00312
PDF


Education
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Department of Computer Science
Ph.D. Student
Expected 2026
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Minnesota Robotics Institute (MnRI)
Master of Science in Robotics
Degree awarded in Dec. 2021
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science
Degree awarded in May. 2020
Experiences
Image Sensing Systems
Saint Paul, MN, USA
Computer Vision Research Intern
Jan. 2020 to Sept. 2020
Reviewer Service

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Teaching
CS 55800 - Introduction to Robot Learning
Purdue University
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Spring 2024
CS 49000 - Introduction to Robotics
Purdue University
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Fall 2023
CSCI 2021 - Machine Architecture and Organization
University of Minnesota
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Spring, Fall 2021


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