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I am a Research Scientist at Nvidia GEAR Lab. I'm broadly interested in robotic manipulation. I completed my PhD in Computer Science, where I was fortunate to be co-advised by Professor Shuran Song and Professor Manuela Veloso at the Robotics & Embodied Artificial Intelligence Lab (REAL) @ Stanford.
Updates
- Sep 2025: DexUMI has been selected as Best Paper Finalist at CoRL 2025
- Sep 2025: Started a new position as Research Scientist at GEAR at Nvidia
- Aug 2025: Passed my PhD thesis defense
- Nov 2024: Flow as the Cross-Domain Manipulation Interface has been selected as Best Paper Finalist at X-Embodiment Workshop (CoRL 2024)
- Aug 2024: Flow as the Cross-Domain Manipulation Interface accepted to CoRL 2024
- Aug 2023: XSkill: Cross Embodiment Skill Discovery accepted to CoRL 2023
- Sep 2022: ASPiRe: Adaptive Skill Priors for Reinforcement Learning accepted to NeurIPS 2022
Research
Mengda Xu*, Han Zhang*, Yifan Hou, Zhenjia Xu, Linxi Fan, Manuela Veloso, Shuran Song
9th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2025), Best Paper Finalist
Mengda Xu, Zhenjia Xu, Yinghao Xu, Cheng Chi, Gordon Wetzstein, Manuela Veloso, Shuran Song
8th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2024)
X-Embodiment Workshop (CoRL 2024), Best Paper Finalist
Mengda Xu, Zhenjia Xu, Cheng Chi, Manuela Veloso, Shuran Song
7th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2023)
Yuchen Xiao, Yanchao Sun, Mengda Xu, Udari Madhushani Sehwag, Jared Vann, Deepeka Garg, Sumitra Ganesh
First Conference on Language Modeling (COLM 2024)
Mengda Xu, Manuela Veloso, Shuran Song
36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022)