Xingyu Chen

Currently, I am a PhD student focus on humanoid, and start my research journey with Prof. Renjing Xu in HKUST(GZ).

Previously, I am a Robotics Animation Engineer at Xiaomi in 2025. Prior to that, I obtained M.Sc degree from University College London in 2024.

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Research

Particularly, I am interested in high-fidelity representation for motion and scene.

HAIC: Humanoid Agile Object Interaction Control via Dynamics-Aware World Model
Dongting Li*, Xingyu Chen*, Qianyang Wu, Bo Chen, Sikai Wu, Hanyu Wu, Guoyao Zhang, Liang Li, Mingliang Zhou, Diyun Xiang, Jianzhu Ma, Qiang Zhang, Renjing Xu
Arxiv preprint, 2026
[project page] [arXiv] [code]

A object world model completes the policy observation for dynamic interaction.

PDF-HR: Pose Distance Fields for Humanoid Robots
Yi Gu*, Yukang Gao*, Yangchen Zhou*, Xingyu Chen, Yixiao Feng, Mingle Zhao, Yunyang Mo, Zhaorui Wang, Lixin Xu, Renjing Xu
Arxiv preprint, 2026
[project page] [arXiv] [code]

A continuous distance field for modeling humanoid robotics pose distribution.

Implicit Kinodynamic Motion Retargeting for Human-to-humanoid Imitation Learning
Xingyu Chen, Hanyu Wu, Sikai Wu, Mingliang Zhou, Diyun Xiang, Haodong Zhang
Arxiv preprint, 2025
[project page] [arXiv] [code]

A real-time method for large-scale human-to-humanoid motion retargeting.

Text-driven Human Motion Generation with Motion Masked Diffusion Model
Xingyu Chen
Arxiv preprint, 2024
[arXiv]

A spatial-temporal mask strategy for text-driven human motion diffusion model.

Gaussian Surfel Representation for Visual SLAM
Xingyu Chen
Dissertation for master degree
[thesis]

A master thesis on the Visual SLAM with a planer Gaussian surfel representation.

Engineering

I also enjoy some system design, implementation, product deployment and engineering applications.

Sensor Fusion and Dynamic Simulation for Autonomous Driving
Internship guided by Dr.Panqu Wang
ZERON, 2024

I led and responsible for the 3DGS closed-loop simulation of the E2E autodrive model.

VR Game for Multi-player Online Helicopter Interaction
UCL COMP0113, 2023
[github]

A multiplayer real-time synchronous game for helicopter driving in Unity on Meta Quest2.

Robotic Sensing, Manipulation and Interaction
UCL COMP0129, 2023
[github]

A geometry-based recognition, positioning and grasping for Franka Panda Arm in Gazebo.

Mobile robotics clusters for industrial routing inspection
Internship guided by Dr.Jingya Liu
MCC CISDI, 2021

I was involved and responsible for the SLAM and navigation system in collaboration robot.

Visual servo robotics for metallurgical manufacturing industry
Internship guided by Dr.Jingya Liu
MCC CISDI, 2020

I was involved and responsible for the simulation and integrated control in industry robot.

Miscellanea

Waterbot's Notebook

If you are interested in the humanoid whole-body control, I maintain a blog to help beginners quickly go through key points and getting started.

[My mkdocs]

This web template is from Jon Barron, the head icon is from 小熊貓, thank all!