Eliot Xing

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about

I am a PhD student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, co-advised by Guanya Shi and Jean Oh. My research generally spans reinforcement learning, robot learning, and physics simulations. I am particularly interested in learning for control through differentiable simulation of complex physical systems.


Previously, I completed my B.S. in Mathematics & B.S. in Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech. I was fortunate to work with Charlie Kemp, Sonia Chernova, Abhinav Gupta, Sam Powers, Victoria Dean, and Zackory Erickson at different points.

teaching

Fall 2024
TA for 16-831: Intro to Robot Learning

Fall 2023
TA for 16-831: Intro to Robot Learning

publications

* equal contribution, ‡ equal advising

2025

Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning in Differentiable Multiphysics Simulation
Eliot Xing, Vernon Luk, Jean Oh

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025


Spotlight

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Soft and Compliant Contact-Rich Hair Manipulation and Care
Uksang Yoo, Nathaniel Dennler, Eliot Xing, Maja Matariฤ‡, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Jean Oh

Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2025


Best Systems Paper Finalist

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2024 and before

How is the Pilot Doing: VTOL Pilot Workload Estimation by Multimodal Machine Learning on Psycho-physiological Signals
Jong Hoon Park*, Lawrence Chen*, Ian Higgins, Zhaobo Zheng, Shashank Mehrotra, Kevin Salubre, Mohammadreza Mousaei, Steven Willits, Blain Levedahl, Timothy Buker, Eliot Xing, Teruhisa Misu, Sebastian Scherer, Jean Oh

Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2024

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CORA: Benchmarks, Baselines, and Metrics as a Platform for Continual Reinforcement Learning Agents
Sam Powers*, Eliot Xing*, Eric Kolve, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Abhinav Gupta

Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs), 2022


Oral Presentation

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Self-Activating Neural Ensembles for Continual Reinforcement Learning
Sam Powers, Eliot Xing, Abhinav Gupta

Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs), 2022

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KitchenShift: Evaluating Zero-Shot Generalization of Imitation-Based Policy Learning Under Domain Shifts
Eliot Xing, Abhinav Gupta, Sam Powers‡, Victoria Dean‡

NeurIPS Workshop on Distribution Shifts, 2021

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Characterizing Multidimensional Capacitive Servoing for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Zackory Erickson, Henry M. Clever, Vamsee Gangaram, Eliot Xing, Greg Turk, C. Karen Liu, Charles C. Kemp

Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2022

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Multimodal Material Classification for Robots using Spectroscopy and High Resolution Texture Imaging
Zackory Erickson, Eliot Xing, Bharat Srirangam, Sonia Chernova, Charles C. Kemp

Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020

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