Zhixian Xie

I am PhD student at Intelligent Robotics and Interactive Systems (IRIS) Lab at Arizona State University.

In 2022, I received my B.Eng degree in automation at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. I joined IRIS lab for PhD study in 2024.1, working with Dr. Wanxin Jin.

               

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My Research

My research focuses on:

• Robot Learning from Human: We develop methods to empower a robot with the ability to efficiently understand and be understood by human users through a variety of physical interactions. We explore how robots can aptly respond to and collaborate meaningfully with users.

• Dexterous Manipulation We develop model-based and model-free mathods to enable highly-dynamic, contact-rich tasks on robot manipulation tasks.

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Publication & Preprints

Safe MPC Alignment with Human Directional Feedback
Zhixian Xie, Wenlong Zhang, Yi Ren, Zhaoran Wang, George. J. Pappas and Wanxin Jin
Preprint, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)
[PDF]/ [Code]/ [Video]/ [Webpage]

Language-Model-Assisted Bi-Level Programming for Reward Learning from Internet Videos
Harsh Mahesheka, Zhixian Xie, Zhaoran Wang, Wanxin Jin
arXiv preprint, 2024
[PDF]/ [Video]/ [Webpage]

Robust Reward Alignment via Hypothesis Space Batch Cutting
Zhixian Xie, Haode Zhang, Yizhe Feng, Wanxin Jin
Accepted by ICML 2025
[PDF]/ Video: Coming Soon/ Code: Coming Soon/ Page: Coming Soon