Ziyan Xiong

Research interests: Robotics, Reinforcement Learning.

I'm a first-year PhD student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, supervised by Prof. Chuang Gan. My research interests focus on how to enable robots to perform complex tasks in a data-efficient manner, presently through teleoperation.

Before joining UMass Amherst, I completed my undergraduate studies in the Yao Class at Tsinghua University, where I worked with Prof. Yang Gao. During my visit to UCSD, I was fortunate to work with Prof. Xiaolong Wang. In my final year of undergraduate studies, I contributed to the Genesis project.

Prior to entering Tsinghua University, I achieved 15th place in the 39th Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO). Although I did not pursue physics further, I aim to make my research as interpretable and principled as physics.

In my spare time, I am a passionate but amateur photographer. I was fortunate to summit all three subsidiary peaks of Yaomei Peak (Mt. Siguniang), Sichuan, China.

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Publications

ExtremControl: Low-Latency Humanoid Teleoperation with Direct Extremity Control

In Submission

Ziyan Xiong*, Lixing Fang*, Junyun Huang*, Kashu Yamazaki, Hao Zhang, Chuang Gan

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MQE: Unleashing the power of interaction with multi-agent quadruped environment

IROS 2024 (Oral Pitch)

Ziyan Xiong, Bo Chen, Shiyu Huang, Wei-Wei Tu, Zhaofeng He, Yang Gao

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Finetuning offline world models in the real world

CoRL 2023 (Oral)

Yunhai Feng*, Nicklas Hansen*, Ziyan Xiong*, Chandramouli Rajagopalan, Xiaolong Wang

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Projects

Genesis Humanoid

An all-in-one humanoid research platform on top of Genesis.

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Genesis

A generative world for general-purpose robotics & embodied AI learning.

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Internship

Embodied AGI Lab — Research Assistant 2024.11 - 2025.04

Mentor: Chuang Gan
Wang Group — Research Assistant 2023.02 - 2023.08

Mentor: Xiaolong Wang