I am a Senior Research Scientist at the Seattle Research Lab (SRL) at NVIDIA, working on Robotics and AI. I received my Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, and my B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science from University of Toronto, with a major in Aerospace.

You can contact me at xuningy at nvidia dot com.

Highlights

Selected publications

  1. RoboLab: A High-Fidelity Simulation Benchmark for Analysis of Task Generalist Policies X. Yang, R. Dagli, A. Zook, H. Hadfield, A. Goyal, S. Birchfield, F. Ramos, J. Tremblay RSS 2025 bibtex pdf code project

  2. Robot Policy Evaluation for Sim-to-Real Transfer: A Benchmarking Perspective X. Yang, C. Eppner, J. Tremblay, D. Fox, S. Birchfield, F. Ramos RSS 2025 WS bibtex pdf

  3. RoboArena: Distributed Real-World Evaluation of Generalist Robot Policies RoboArena team RSS 2025 bibtex pdf

  4. Inference-Time Policy Steering through Human Interactions Y. Wang, L. Wang, Y. Du, B. Sundaralingam, X. Yang, Y.-W. Chao, C. Pérez-D’Arpino, D. Fox, J. Shah ICRA 2025 bibtex pdf project

  5. Aim My Robot: Precision Local Navigation to Any Object X. Meng, X. Yang, S. Jung, F. Ramos, S. S. Jujjavarapu, S. Paul, D. Fox RAL 2025 bibtex pdf project

  6. Fast Explicit-Input Assistance for Teleoperation in Clutter N. Walker, X. Yang, A. Garg, M. Cakmak, D. Fox, C. Pérez-D’Arpino IROS 2024 bibtex pdf code

  7. Assisted Mobile Robot Teleoperation with Intent-aligned Trajectories via Biased Incremental Action Sampling X. Yang, N. Michael IROS 2020 bibtex pdf code talk

  8. Fast and Agile Vision-Based Flight with Teleoperation and Collision Avoidance on a Multirotor A. Spitzer*, X. Yang*, J. Yao, A. Dhawale, K. Goel, M. Dabhi, M. Collins, C. Boirum, N. Michael ISER 2018 bibtex pdf video

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