Xiwen Dengxiong — Human-Robot Collaboration & AR Teleoperation

Xiwen Dengxiong

邓熊希文

Ph.D. in Computing and Information Sciences, working on human-robot collaboration, AR-based teleoperation and robot learning. I believe multi-dimensional interaction with intelligent robots is the future.

Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Rochester Institute of Technology Room 1070, 74 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623, USA dengxiongxiwen@gmail.com
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Portrait of Xiwen Dengxiong
01 · Biography

I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Computing & Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, in 2026, advised by Dr. Yunbo Zhang. Before that I received an M.S. in the Department of Computer Science at RIT in August 2021, advised by Dr. Yu Kong, and a B.S. from the School of Science, Qingdao University of Technology, China, in July 2019.

My research interests encompass human-robot collaboration, open-set recognition, robot learning, AR-based teleoperation systems, tactile sensing, and their applications in computer vision tasks. I believe that multi-dimensional interaction with intelligent robots is the future.

02 · News
07/2026 Best Student Paper Finalist, CASE 2026.
06/2026 Joined Realhand as a Research Scientist.
05/2026 Best Paper Award, IDETC VARE 2026.
10/2025 Delivered live demos on AR-based robot teleoperation and data collection to Dr. Yonghui Wu and leading robotics startups (Skild AI, Rhoda AI, RobotEra, Galaxea).
08/2025 Serving as contributor of the XRoboToolkit project at TikTok, PICO.
06/2025 One paper accepted to CASE 2025. [Video]
05/2025 Joined TikTok PICO as a Fall Intern.
04/2025 Joined TouchTronix Robotics as a Summer Intern.
03/2025 Serving as reviewer for IROS 2025 and SPM 2025.
11/2024 Serving as an organizer for the Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM) 2025.
09/2024 Serving as reviewer for ICRA 2025.
03/2024 Received an ICRA 2024 travel award.
10/2023 One paper accepted to ICRA 2024. [Video] [Code]
10/2022 One paper accepted to WACV 2023.
08/2022 Joined the C-DIME lab, supervised by Dr. Yunbo Zhang.
06/2022 Serving as reviewer for ACM MM 2022.
08/2021 Started my PhD at RIT.
06/2021 One paper accepted to IJCNN 2021, and serving as reviewer for ACM MM 2021.
06/2020 Joined the Action Lab as a student researcher.
03 · Experience

Research Scientist

Realhand · working on Physical Agent

June 2026 – present

Current Realhand

AR & Robotics Intern

TikTok PICO · 1199 Coleman Avenue, San Jose, CA

August 2025 – December 2025

TikTok

Robotics Intern

TouchTronix Robotics · Baird Research Park, Buffalo, NY

April 2025 – June 2025

TouchTronix Robotics

Research Assistant

Toyota Production Lab · Rochester Institute of Technology

June 2023 – March 2025

Toyota

Research Assistant

C-DIME Lab · Rochester Institute of Technology

August 2022 – March 2025

C-DIME Lab

Research Assistant

Action Lab · Rochester Institute of Technology

May 2020 – December 2021

Action Lab
04 · Publications
CASE 2025

RoPESim: A Framework for Robot Manipulation Policy Evaluation via Simulation

Xueting Wang, Xiwen Dengxiong, Shi Bai, Yunbo Zhang

2025 IEEE 21st International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)

Video Code coming soon
RoPESim system figure
05 · Demo videos
RoPESim — policy evaluation in simulation (CASE 2025) · open on YouTube
6-DoF grasping by demonstration through AR teleoperation (ICRA 2024) · open on YouTube

More on the C-DIME Labs channel.

06 · Education

Ph.D. Computing and Information Science

Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA

August 2021 – May 2026 · Advisor: Prof. Yunbo Zhang

M.S. Computer Science

Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA

August 2019 – August 2021

B.S. Mathematics

School of Science, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, China

September 2015 – July 2019

07 · Awards, teaching and service

Awards

Best Paper Award, IDETC VARE 2026

Best Student Paper Finalist, CASE 2026

ICRA 2024 travel award

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, CSCI 631 Introduction to Computer Vision, Rochester Institute of Technology, Spring 2021

Academic service

Organizer, Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM) 2025

Reviewer: CVPR · ICCV · ECCV · ICLR · CoRL · ICRA 2025 · IROS 2025 · SPM 2025 · ACM MM 2021, 2022