Xiaolong Wang
Associate Professor
Studies self-supervised visual learning, video understanding and embodied AI for robot manipulation.
Xiaolong Wang's lab at UCSD works on embodied & active vision, video understanding and generative & foundation models. 82 papers since 2023, 78 at top venues, mostly CVPR and CoRL. 9 PhD students. 73 alumni, most often to Meta and NVIDIA. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 21/ year
- at T1 venues
- 95%
- PhD students
- 9
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 73
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 6 papers2026 · T1 6 · collecting
- 25 papers2025 · T1 25
- 30 papers2024 · T1 28
- 21 papers2023 · T1 19
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CVPR, CoRL, ICLR, ICRA, IROS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Generative & foundation models16 papers
- Embodied & active vision10 papers
- Video understanding2 papers
- self-supervised2 papers
- robot manipulation1 paper
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20266 papers
- ICLR (T1)3D Aware Region Prompted Vision Language Model
- ICLR (T1)Cross-embodied Co-design for Dexterous Hands
- IROS (T1)EgoVLA: Learning Vision-Language-Action Models from Egocentric Human Videos
- IROS (T1)GMT: General Motion Tracking for Humanoid Whole-Body Control
- ICRA (T1)HMC: Learning Heterogeneous Meta-Control for Contact-Rich Loco-Manipulation
- ICLR (T1)Learning Massively Multitask World Models for Continuous Control
202525 papers
- RSS (T1)AMO: Adaptive Motion Optimization for Hyper-Dexterous Humanoid Whole-Body Control
- IROS (T1)Bunny-VisionPro: Real-Time Bimanual Dexterous Teleoperation for Imitation Learning
- CoRL (T1)Co-Design of Soft Gripper with Neural Physics
- ICLR (T1)Consistent Flow Distillation for Text-to-3D Generation
- RSS (T1)Dex1B: Learning with 1B Demonstrations for Dexterous Manipulation
- IROS (T1)DNAct: Diffusion Guided Multi-Task 3D Policy Learning
- ICLR (T1)Dynamic Gaussians Mesh: Consistent Mesh Reconstruction from Monocular Videos
- CVPR (T1)EditAR: Unified Conditional Generation with Autoregressive Models
- IROS (T1)Helpful DoggyBot: Open-World Object Fetching using Legged Robots and Vision-Language Models
- ICLR (T1)Hierarchical World Models as Visual Whole-Body Humanoid Controllers
- ICRA (T1)Hover: Versatile neural whole-body controller for humanoid robots
- CoRL (T1)Humanoid Policy ~ Human Policy
202430 papers
- ICLR (T1)3D Reconstruction with Generalizable Neural Fields using Scene Priors
- SIGGRAPH (T1)A Construct-Optimize Approach to Sparse View Synthesis without Camera Pose
- NeurIPS (T1)A Simulation Benchmark for Autonomous Racing with Large-Scale Human Data
- CoRL (T1)ACE: A Cross-Platform Visual-Exoskeletons System for Low-Cost Dexterous Teleoperation
- CVPR (T1)COLMAP-Free 3D Gaussian Splatting
- 3DVContactArt: Learning 3D Interaction Priors for Category-level Articulated Object and Hand Poses Estimation
- CVPR (T1)CyberDemo: Augmenting Simulated Human Demonstration for Real-World Dexterous Manipulation
- RA-LDexTouch: Learning to Seek and Manipulate Objects with Tactile Dexterity
- ECCV (T1)Editable Image Elements for Controllable Synthesis
- RSS (T1)Expressive Whole-Body Control for Humanoid Robots
- ECCV (T1)Feature Splatting: Language-Driven Physics-Based Scene Synthesis and Editing
- CoRL (T1)Generalized Animal Imitator: Agile Locomotion with Versatile Motion Prior
202321 papers
- ICCV (T1)ActorsNeRF: Animatable Few-shot Human Rendering with Generalizable NeRFs
- RSS (T1)AnyTeleop: A General Vision-Based Dexterous Robot Arm-Hand Teleoperation System
- CVPR (T1)DexArt: Benchmarking Generalizable Dexterous Manipulation with Articulated Objects
- CoRL (T1)Dynamic Handover: Throw and Catch with Bimanual Hands
- NeurIPS (T1)Elastic Decision Transformer
- ICCV (T1)FeatureNeRF: Learning Generalizable NeRFs by Distilling Foundation Models
- CoRL (T1)Finetuning Offline World Models in the Real World
- CoRL (T1)GNFactor: Multi-Task Real Robot Learning with Generalizable Neural Feature Fields
- ICLR (T1)GPViT: A High Resolution Non-Hierarchical Vision Transformer with Group Propagation
- RA-LLearning Continuous Grasping Function with a Dexterous Hand from Human Demonstrations
- ICML (T1)Learning dense correspondences between photos and sketches
- ICLR (T1)MoDem: Accelerating Visual Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with Demonstrations
Where alumni went73 listed, 26% to industry
Industry 15Academia 43
Most often to
- Meta
- NVIDIA
- OpenAI
Also to
- UIUC
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Georgia Tech
Apply to UCSDFall 2027
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