Danfei Xu
Assistant Professor
Develops robot learning methods such as imitation and reinforcement learning for physical autonomy in human environments.
Danfei Xu's lab at Georgia Tech works on manipulation & robot learning and reinforcement learning. 35 papers since 2023, 23 at top venues, mostly CoRL and ICRA. 12 PhD students and 7 master's students. 14 alumni, most often to Amazon and Apple. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 9/ year
- at T1 venues
- 66%
- PhD students
- 12
- MS students
- 7
- alumni listed
- 14
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 7 papers2026 · T1 5 · collecting
- 10 papers2025 · T1 6
- 8 papers2024 · T1 6
- 10 papers2023 · T1 6
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CoRL, ICRA, RSS, ICLR, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning21 papers
- Reinforcement learning13 papers
- imitation10 papers
- develops robot0 papers
- autonomy0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20267 papers
- ICLR OralCompositional Diffusion with Guided Search for Long-Horizon Planning
- ICLR (T1)Compositional Visual Planning via Inference-Time Diffusion Scaling
- TMLR J2C CertificationContinual Robot Learning via Language-Guided Skill Acquisition
- RSS (T1)EgoVerse: An Egocentric Human Dataset for Robot Learning from Around the World
- RSS (T1)Emergence of Human to Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action Models
- RSS (T1)KinDER: A Physical Reasoning Benchmark for Robot Learning and Planning
- RSS (T1)ReSteer: Quantifying and Refining the Steerability of Multitask Robot Policies
202510 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)EgoBridge: Domain Adaptation for Generalizable Imitation from Egocentric Human Data
- ICRA (T1)EgoMimic: Scaling Imitation Learning through Egocentric Video
- RA-LEMMA: Scaling Mobile Manipulation via Egocentric Human Data
- NeurIPS (T1)Generalizable Domain Adaptation for Sim-and-Real Policy Co-Training
- NeurIPS SpotlightGenerative Trajectory Stitching through Diffusion Composition
- CoRL Oral PresentationImMimic: Cross-Domain Imitation from Human Videos via Mapping and Interpolation
- CoRL (T1)Joint Model-based Model-free Diffusion for Planning with Constraints
- ICRA (T1)RAIL: Reachability-Aided Imitation Learning for Safe Policy Execution
- CoRL Oral PresentationSAIL: Faster-than-Demonstration Execution of Imitation Learning Policies
- ICLR (T1)What Matters in Learning from Large-Scale Datasets for Robot Manipulation
20248 papers
- TMLR (T1)C3DM: Constrained-Context Conditional Diffusion Models for Imitation Learning
- ICLR (T1)EmerNeRF: Emergent Spatial-Temporal Scene Decomposition via Self-Supervision
- CoRL (T1)Generative Factor Chaining: Coordinated Manipulation with Diffusion-based Factor Graph
- RA-LLegibility Diffuser: Offline Imitation for Intent Expressive Motion
- CoRL (T1)MimicTouch: Leveraging Multi-modal Human Tactile Demonstrations for Contact-rich Manipulation
- CVPR (T1)Neural Visibility Field for Uncertainty-Driven Active Mapping
- CoRL (T1)NOD-TAMP: Multi-Step Manipulation Planning with Neural Object Descriptors
- ICRA Best Paper AwardOpen X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models
202310 papers
- ICRA (T1)BITS: Bi-level Imitation for Traffic Simulation
- CoRL (T1)Generative Skill Chaining: Long-Horizon Skill Planning with Diffusion Models
- ICRA (T1)Guided Conditional Diffusion for Controllable Traffic Simulation
- CoRL (T1)Human-in-the-Loop Task and Motion Planning for Imitation Learning
- CoRL Oral PresentationLanguage-Guided Traffic Simulation via Scene-Level Diffusion
- Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) Best Paper Honorable MentionLEAGUE: Guided Skill Learning and Abstraction for Long-Horizon Manipulation
- CoRL (T1)Learning to Discern: Imitating Heterogeneous Human Demonstrations with Preference and Representation Learning
- CoRL Best Paper, Best Systems Paper FinalistMimicPlay: Long-Horizon Imitation Learning by Watching Human Play
- CoRL Best Paper finalist at ICRA'23 Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable ObjectsNeural Field Dynamics Model for Granular Object Piles Manipulation
- ICRA (T1)ProgPrompt: Generating Situated Robot Task Plans using Large Language Models
Where alumni went14 listed, 50% to industry
Industry 5Academia 5
Most often to
- Amazon
- Apple
- Mecka AI
Also to
- Carnegie Mellon University
- UC San Diego
Apply to Georgia TechFall 2027
Georgia Tech Computer Science PhD
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