I’m Chendong Xin, a Ph.D. student in Robotics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where I work with Prof. Danfei Xu.
I received my B.Eng. in Automation from Tsinghua University, where I worked with Prof. Xiang Li in the Intelligent Robotic Manipulation Lab. I also worked with Prof. Shuran Song at the REALab at Stanford University as an undergraduate visiting researcher.
My research focuses on physics-grounded robot learning for dexterous, contact-rich manipulation and building full-stack real-world robotic systems. I am particularly interested in how diverse multisensory data and physical interaction can help robots learn skills that are reliable and generalize to complex real-world tasks.
My interest in robotics started when I participated in the FIRST Robotics Competition (Team 6907) during high school.
Research Interests
My primary interests focus on bridging the gap between human dexterity and robotic capabilities through physics-grounded learning:
🧠 Learning from Human Data — Learning from scalable and multisensory human data
⚙️ Physics-Grounded Manipulation — Incorporating contact and force/tactile information into robot learning and control
🖐️ Dexterous Manipulation — Enabling robot hands to perform complex, contact-rich manipulation tasks
🤖 Real-world Robotic Systems — Building full-stack robotic systems that operate reliably in the real world
Latest Updates
- [2026.9.24] – Our paper Compliant Residual DAgger: Improving Real-World Contact-Rich Manipulation with Human Corrections is accepted by International Journal of Robotics Research.
- [2026.8.15] – Excited to begin my Ph.D. journey at Georgia Tech!
- [2026.6.27] - I received my B.Eng. in Automation from Tsinghua University and was honored with the Outstanding Graduate Award and Outstanding Bachelor’s Thesis Award.
- [2026.1.15] - Our paper Analyzing Key Objectives in Human-to-Robot Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation is accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Practice.
- [2025.6.21] - I start my internship at Stanford REALab as an undergraduate visiting student, working with Prof. Shuran Song.
- [2025.5.22] - We win the Picking-in-Clutter Track of the Robotics Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) at ICRA 2025.
- [2025.5.19] - I present our paper Analyzing Key Objectives in Human-to-Robot Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation at ICRA 2025 Workshop “Handy Moves: Dexterity in Multi-Fingered Hands”.
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ph.D. in Robotics
Advisor: Danfei Xu
2026 – Present
Tsinghua University
B.Eng. in Automation
2022 – 2026
Research Experience
Stanford University
Undergraduate Visiting Researcher, REALab
Advisor: Shuran Song
2025
Tsinghua University
Research Assistant, Intelligent Robotic Manipulation Lab
Advisor: Xiang Li
2023-2026
Contact
I’m always interested in discussing robotics, AI, and any topics you feel interetsed and wanna talk about. Feel free to reach out via email!