Xiaolin Fang

I am a final-year Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL, LIS Group, working with Leslie Kaelbling and Tomás Lozano-Pérez. I interned at NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab led by Prof. Dieter Fox during summer 2022. Previously, I obtained my bachelor's degree from Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University, where I worked with Prof. Xiaowei Zhou.

My research focuses on robot learning and planning, with an emphasis on generalization to new goals, novel environments, and long-horizon manipulation tasks. My previous work includes developing composable robot skill models that generalize across:

• Changes in visual observations, including different environments, views, and unseen objects
• Task-specific constraints, such as composing skills to accomplish the task given an initial condition that is not seen at training time
• Different robotic embodiments: including Franka (Single Arm), Movo, Rainbow Rby-1 (Mobile-base Bi-manual), and BostonDynamics Spot (Mobile Single Arm)

I'm looking for full-time positions in the industry. Let's chat :)