Xinchen Yin

I am a second-year M.S. student in Robotics at Georgia Tech, advised by Prof. Danfei Xu.

During my undergraduate studies at the ZJU-UIUC Institute, I was fortunate to be mentored by Prof. Hua Chen and to work with Prof. Gaoang Wang. While at UIUC, I collaborated with Prof. Yunzhu Li, together with Shivansh Patel and Wenlong Huang. I am deeply grateful to all my collaborators and labmates along the way, who have shaped how I think about research.

I am seeking PhD positions and industry research roles starting in Fall 2027. Please feel free to reach out.

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Research

My research focuses on scalable, learning-based methods for robot manipulation. I work across the full robotics stack, from hardware and data collection to policy learning, simulation, and real-world deployment. My long-term goals are (1) to enable robots to learn efficiently from Internet-scale data and (2) to equip robots with human-level manipulation capabilities.

Currently, I am interested in:

Leveraging foundation models for robotics
Learning from cross-embodiment data
World action models and world models for robot learning

Publications

* denotes equal contribution

	EgoWAM: World Action Models Beyond Pixels with In-the-Wild Egocentric Human Data Baoyu Li, Xinchen Yin*, Mengying Lin, Yixin Zhang, Danfei Xu CoRL*, 2026 project / arXiv
	EgoEngine: From Egocentric Human Videos to High-Fidelity Dexterous Robot Demonstrations Yangcen Liu, Shuo Cheng, Xinchen Yin, Woo Chul Shin, Alfred Cueva, Yiran Yang, Zhenyang Chen, Chuye Zhang, Danfei Xu CoRL, 2026 project / arXiv
	A Real-to-Sim-to-Real Approach to Robotic Manipulation with VLM-Generated Iterative Keypoint Rewards Shivansh Patel, Xinchen Yin*, Wenlong Huang, Shubham Garg, Hooshang Nayyeri, Li Fei-Fei, Svetlana Lazebnik, Yunzhu Li ICRA, 2025 CoRL Workshops (LEAP, LangRob)*, 2024 project / arXiv

Service

Conference Reviewer: CoRL, ICRA
Journal Reviewer: IEEE RA-L

Misc

Outside of research, I enjoy cooking and good food, especially Hunan (Xiang) cuisine from my hometown. I also enjoy competitive games, especially League of Legends, which has been a big part of my youth since 2013. And I daydream a lot, often lost in random thoughts about everything from big questions to small things.

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