Yiqing Xu

Yiqing Xu is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Computer Science at Stanford University, working with Prof. Jiajun Wu. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore in 2026, advised by Prof. David Hsu, and was a visiting Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL and a research intern at the Allen Institute for AI. She is best known for her work on translating human objectives into structured, robot-executable signals, including the neuro-symbolic systems "Set It Up" and "Stack It Up" for functional object arrangement and 3D structure generation, as well as recent research on human-VLA communication gaps and adaptive planning for robot policies.