Hi! I'm a CS PhD student @ CU Boulder, advised by Nikolaus Correll. I'm interested in the sense of touch, assistive devices, robot learning, and their cross products. I also enjoy hanging out with my two cats, adding moves to my post-up game, and studying Chinatown demographics.

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Contact: william.xie at colorado.edu
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Some Updates
  • 2025-06-21: I'm presenting ongoing work on physical reasoning (Unfettered Forceful Skills and the Dual-Use Dilemma) at two RSS workshops.
  • 2025-03-17: I gave my area exam on tactile data collection and representation learning for robot manipulation. The charts are clickable...
  • 2024-11-10: I presented DeliGrasp (poster) and Just Add Force (MRM-D Workshop) @ CoRL 2024!
  • 2024-04-04: The NSF awarded me the Graduate Research Fellowship :')
  • 2024-03-03: DeliGrasp was accepted to the VLMNM workshop @ ICRA 2025 (my labmate Max helped present in May).
  • 2023-08-31: I presented my extended abstract on using code-writing models for robotics education at the R4L workshop @ ROMAN 2023.
  • 2023-08-26: I started my PhD at CU Boulder!