I am a Ph.D student in the Multimodal AI Research Society (MARS) Lab, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, advised by Prof. Jianfei Yang (Stanford World’s Top 2% Scientists). I also collaborate closely with Prof. Chen Wang and Prof. Chaoqun Wang.

Prior to NTU, I obtained my MEng degree in Control Science and Engineering from Shandong University and received a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from the University of Jinan. In the past, I focused on the pratical robot applications in the field of mobile robots.

Now, I am focusing on the development of embodied AI agents for Life Science, combining Foundation Models and Robotic Arm in the Chem/Bio lab automation. Specifically, I hope to build a robust, safe, user-friendly embodied AI agent to help the biochemical researchers finishing some repetitive and boring work, like what copilot does for programmers and ChatGPT for writers.

During my spare time, I enjoy any sports, especially basketball, and playing video games, especially the Roguelike games and Pokemon. Now, I begin to explore the photography as most Ph.D students~

My research interest includes robotic navigation, motion planning, and embodied AI. I have published more than 1 papers at the top robotics journals and conferences with total .

Feel free to send me an email at cxy980212@gmail.com if our interests align and I’m delighted to any collaboration and discussion oppertounities.

🔥 News

2026.1: “RM-RL: Role-Model Reinforcement Learning for Precise Robot Manipulation” is accepted by ICRA 2026!
2025.10: “iA*: Imperative Learning-based A∗ Search for Pathfinding” is accepted by RAL!
2024.12: 🎉🎉 Receive the offer of NTU, begin my Ph.D study in 2025.

📝 Selected Publications

RM-RL: Role-Model Reinforcement Learning for Precise Robot Manipulation

Xiangyu Chen, Chuhao Zhou, Yuxi Liu, Jianfei Yang

iA∗: Imperative Learning-based A∗ Search for Pathfinding

Xiangyu Chen, Fan Yang, Chen Wang

🎖 Honors and Awards

2023, National Scholarship for graduates, (Top 1%)
2022, CUBA (Shandong) the third price
2020, National Scholarship for undergraduates, (Top 1%)
2020, Songjian Scholarship, (Top 0.1%)
2019, Meritorious Winner in American Mathematical Contest

📖 Educations

2020.09 - 2023.06, Master, Shandong University.
2016.09 - 2020.06, Undergraduate, University of Jinan, Jinan.

💻 Internships

2024.11 - 2025.01, MegaRobo, Beijing, China.
2024.05 - 2024.08, Realman, Beijing, China.
2023.09 - 2024.09, SAIR Lab, Jinan, China.
2020.05 - 2020.07, Yobotics, Jinan, China.