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Education

2023--2026

M.Eng. in Cyber Science and Engineering

Wuhan University · Expected Graduation

Research interests: Latent Action Modeling, Vision-Language-Action Models, Game AI, RAG Systems

2019--2023

B.Eng. in Cyber Science and Engineering

Wuhan University · GPA: 3.89/4.0, Top 5%

Honors: Multiple First-Class Academic Scholarships

Selected Publications

ICLR 2026

villa-X: Enhancing Latent Action Modeling in Vision-Language-Action Models

Xiaoyu Chen*, Hangxing Wei*, Pushi Zhang, et al.

Code · Project Page

Grounded latent actions in robot dynamics for VLA policy learning, improving simulation and real-world performance with zero-shot latent planning.

Under Review

AC-LAM: Learning Additively Compositional Latent Actions for Embodied AI

Hangxing Wei, Xiaoyu Chen, Chuheng Zhang, Tim Pearce, et al. · ICML 2026

Proposed an additively compositional latent space that filters non-essential environmental features for robust robot control.

Under Review

Beyond Human Demonstrations: Diffusion-Based RL to Generate VLA Data

Rushuai Yang*, Hangxing Wei*, Ran Zhang*, et al. · ECCV 2026

Proposed a diffusion-based RL method for collecting diverse, high-quality synthetic data in simulation environments.

Internships

2024--Present

Research Intern · Microsoft Research Asia

  • Latent Action Model: Led large-scale distributed training with ST-Transformer and VQ-VAE architectures on human and robotic motion datasets.
  • RL Data Augmentation for Robotics: Proposed diffusion-based RL data generation for augmenting expert demonstrations, improving downstream VLA policies on LIBERO benchmarks.
2022--2023

R&D Intern · Beijing Puyuan Technology Co., Ltd.

  • Engineered a high-frequency market data ingestion and streaming order book framework in C++ and Python.
  • Built asynchronous FastAPI backend services for enterprise RAG, model serving, strategy SDKs, and document parsing.

Selected Projects

2025

UnifiedDataLoader for Robotics · Core Developer

Standardized access to 90+ datasets across 10+ robotic platforms and optimized cloud-based streaming for 50M+ demonstration episodes.

2026

Robot Teleoperation & Data Collection Framework · Core Developer

Designed a hardware abstraction stack and data collection pipeline for synchronized robot telemetry and observations.

2025

Unified VLA Training Framework · Core Developer

Built config-centric training, evaluation, and alerting infrastructure for mainstream VLA models.

2021

ROBOCON Vision Localization · Tech Lead

Led the vision and sensor-fusion system for a national champion robotics team, combining LiDAR, depth cameras, YOLO, and optical flow.

2023

UniParse Document Parsing Platform · Core Developer

Architected an enterprise parsing framework for OCR, text extraction, table recognition, and reading-order reconstruction.

Honors & Awards

2021

National Champion, ROBOCON

News · Code · Certificate

2023

Third Prize, China Graduate Mathematical Modeling Competition

Certificate

2020--2023

Academic Scholarships & Merit Student, Wuhan University

Multiple academic scholarships, Merit Student, and Outstanding Student awards.

Skills & Profile

Systems for AI · Research Engineering · Python · C/C++ · Linux · Docker · FastAPI · Azure Blob · vLLM · Distributed Training · PyTorch · ROS · OpenCV · Reinforcement Learning · Diffusion · VLA Models