Zixi Kang

I am an undergraduate student majoring in Artificial Intelligence at Yuanpei College, Peking University. Starting in 2026, I will begin my PhD at Peking University under the supervision of Prof. Libin Liu.

My current research interest lies in mobile manipulation, multimodal learning, humanoid agent, and VLA/WAM/World Model, and I am also willing to explore additional domains within the field of artificial intelligence in the future.

News

[2026.7] One paper accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 (Journal Track).

[2026.6] Selected as Yuanpei Young Scholar and Excellent Graduate of Peking University.

[2026.5] One paper accepted to IEEE TMM 2026.

[2026.2] One paper accepted to CVPR 2026 as Oral & Award Candidate (top 1.8%).

[2025.10] One paper accepted to IEEE TIP 2025.

Publications

^* denotes equal contribution, and ^† denotes corresponding author.

	ProAct: Harnessing Streaming Motion Generation and Agentic Reasoning for Realtime Embodied Social Interaction Zeyi Zhang^, Zixi Kang^, Ruijie Zhao^, Yusen Feng, Biao Jiang, Libin Liu^† ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), SIGGRAPH Asia Journal Track,* 2026 Project page / Paper
	OpenDance: Multimodal Controllable 3D Dance Generation with Large-scale Internet Data Jinlu Zhang^, Zixi Kang^, Libin Liu, Jianlong Chang, Qi Tian, Feng Gao, Yizhou Wang^† IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026 Oral Award Candidate (top 1.8%) Project page / Paper
	Biomechanics-Guided Residual Approach to Generalizable Human Motion Generation and Estimation Zixi Kang, Xinghan Wang, Yadong Mu^† IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2026 Paper / Code
	Text-controlled Motion Mamba: Text-Instructed Temporal Grounding of Human Motion Xinghan Wang, Zixi Kang, Yadong Mu^† IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2025 Paper

Preprints

MuGen: Multi-Skill Generative Locomotion Controller for Humanoid Robots Yusen Feng^*, Xiang Wang^*, Heyuan Yao, Zixi Kang, Xinyu Huo, Boyang Yu, Pengyun Qiu, Ruijie Zhao, Baoquan Chen^†, Libin Liu^†

arXiv, 2026

Paper

Experience
Galbot — Intern Researcher	2026.8 – Present
VCL Lab, Peking University — Member	2025.3 – Present
Ant Group — Intern Researcher	2026.3 – 2026.7
PKUMI Lab, Peking University — Intern Researcher	2024.2 – 2025.3

Services

Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM).

Selected Awards
Yuanpei Young Scholar	2026
Excellent Graduate of Peking University	2026
Yicong Huang Scholarship	2024
Ching-Ling Soong Future Scholarship	2024
MCM/ICM Meritorious Winner (<6%)	2024
Peking University Merit Student (<2%)	2023
Peking University Fenjiu Group Public Welfare Scholarship	2023
Peking University Freshman Scholarship	2022

Education

	Ph.D. Student in Artificial Intelligence School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University, China. Advisor: Prof. Libin Liu 2026 – Present
	B.S. in Artificial Intelligence Yuanpei College, Peking University, China. 2022 – 2026

Personal Interests

I was a member of the Yuanpei College men's soccer team, playing as centre back, defensive midfielder, or wing back. My favorite club is Leicester City, and I will always be a fan of the Chinese men's national football team.

In my spare time I enjoy sports — mainly soccer, F1, and table tennis — as well as listening to music, singing, hiking, and traveling to explore new places. I have visited 112 cities across 11 countries so far:

Asia: China (24/34 provinces), Singapore, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, Melaka), Cambodia (Phnom Penh, Siem Reap), Nepal (Kathmandu, Pokhara)
Europe: France (Paris, Cannes), Monaco, Italy (Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Naples), Vatican City, Russia (Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Vladivostok)
North America: United States (New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Boston, Honolulu, Philadelphia, Denver — CVPR 2026)

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