Xiaolong Wang
Xiaolong Wang is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, where he leads research at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, and robotics. He is also a Research Director at Meta Superintelligence Labs focusing on Embodied AI, having joined Meta through the acquisition of Assured Robot Intelligence, a humanoid robotics company he co-founded. His research focuses on representation learning through videos and physical robotic interaction data, with applications in self-supervised learning, video understanding, and robot skill acquisition. He received his Ph.D. from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley.
“Senior author and PI. Wang's lab is a leading group in dexterous manipulation and tactile sensing. His involvement signals that this work is connected to broader advances in contact-rich manipulation, in-hand reorientation, and cross-embodiment transfer”
Source→“Senior author; lab has produced multiple papers at the intersection of large-scale robot learning and hardware co-design... One of the more productive labs bridging Physical AI learning and hardware.”
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