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Mengda Xu

mengdaxu at stanford dot edu

I'm a PhD student in Computer Science. I'm broadly interested in robotic manipulation. I'm fortunate to be co-advised by Professor Shuran Song and Professor Manuela Veloso. I am a member of the Robotics & Embodied Artificial Intelligence Lab (REAL) @ Stanford.

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Research

DexUMI: Using Human Hand as the Universal Manipulation Interface for Dexterous Manipulation

Mengda Xu*, Han Zhang*, Yifan Hou, Zhenjia Xu, Linxi Fan, Manuela Veloso, Shuran Song

Preprint, 2025

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Flow as the Cross-Domain Manipulation Interface

Mengda Xu, Zhenjia Xu, Yinghao Xu, Cheng Chi, Gordon Wetzstein, Manuela Veloso, Shuran Song

8th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2024)

X-Embodiment Workshop (CoRL 2024), Best Paper Finalist

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XSkill: Cross Embodiment Skill Discovery

Mengda Xu, Zhenjia Xu, Cheng Chi, Manuela Veloso, Shuran Song

7th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2023)

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O3D: Offline Data-driven Discovery and Distillation for Sequential Decision-Making with Large Language Models

Yuchen Xiao, Yanchao Sun, Mengda Xu, Udari Madhushani Sehwag, Jared Vann, Deepeka Garg, Sumitra Ganesh

First Conference on Language Modeling (COLM 2024)

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ASPiRe: Adaptive Skill Priors for Reinforcement Learning

Mengda Xu, Manuela Veloso, Shuran Song

36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022)

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