I am a Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL, advised by Professor Wojciech Matusik in the Computational Design and Fabrication Group (CDFG). I obtained my B.Eng. from Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University with honor in 2016. During my undergraduate period, I worked with Professor Shi-Min Hu in the Tsinghua Graphics & Geometric Computing Group and with Professor Stelian Coros as an exchange student at CMU.
My research mainly focuses on the intersection of Robotics, Simulation, and Computational Fabrication. Specifically, I am interested in the following topics: Robotics Control, Reinforcement Learning, Differentiable Physics-based Simulation, Robotics Control and Design Co-Optimization, and Sim-to-Real.
05/2021: Our work about differentiable simulation for robot co-design is accepted by RSS 2021.
03/2021: A paper on multi-objective robot topology search is accepted by ICRA 2021.
11/2020: RoboGrammar is covered by MIT News.
Multi-Objective Graph Heuristic Search for Terrestrial Robot Design
Jie Xu ,
Andrew Spielberg ,
Allan Zhao ,
Daniela Rus ,
Wojciech Matusik
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021)
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Prediction-Guided Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Robot Control
Jie Xu ,
Yunsheng Tian ,
Pingchuan Ma ,
Daniela Rus ,
Shinjiro Sueda ,
Wojciech Matusik
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020)
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RoboGrammar: Graph Grammar for Terrain-Optimized Robot Design
Allan Zhao ,
Jie Xu ,
Mina Konaković Luković ,
Josephine Hughes ,
Andrew Spielberg ,
Daniela Rus ,
Wojciech Matusik
ACM Transactions on Graphics 39(6) (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2020)
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Learning to Fly: Computational Controller Design for Hybrid UAVs with Reinforcement Learning
Jie Xu ,
Tao Du ,
Michael Foshey,
Beichen Li,
Bo Zhu ,
Adriana Schulz ,
Wojciech Matusik
ACM Transactions on Graphics 38(4) (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2019)
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Interactive Design Space Exploration and Optimization for CAD Models
Adriana Schulz ,
Jie Xu , Bo Zhu ,
Changxi Zheng ,
Eitan Grinspun ,
Wojciech Matusik
ACM Transactions on Graphics 36(4) (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2017)
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View Suggestion for Interactive Segmentation of Indoor Scenes
Sheng Yang ,
Jie Xu ,
Kang Chen ,
Hong-Bo Fu
Computational Visual Media, Vol. 3, Issue 2, pp 131-146, June 2017
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Extracting Sharp Features from RGB-D Images
Yan-Pei Cao ,
Tao Ju ,
Jie Xu ,
Shi-Min Hu
Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 35, No. 8, pp. 138-174, 2017
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June 2016
Outstanding Graduate in Tsinghua University by Tsinghua University
Oct 2015
China Computer Federation Outstanding Undergradate Award by China Computer Federation
May 2015
Gold Medal in the ACM-ICPC World Finals 2015 by Association for Computing Machinery
Sept 2018 - present
MIT Table Tennis Team Member
Feb 2019
Championship in NCTTA Upper New England Division in season 2018-2019 MIT Table Tennis Team
Oct 2018
Championship in 2018 MIT Open U1700 Division (USATT rated) Individual