Me
Xinkai WANG (王薪恺)
Southeast University (SEU) and Shanghai Innovation Institute (SII)
xinkaiwang [at] sii.edu.cn

About

I am currently a first-year PhD student in the State Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering, Southeast University, supervised by Prof. Lifeng Zhu, and I am also involved in joint training at the Shanghai Innovation Institute (SII) under the co-supervision of Prof. Lixin Yang and Prof. Cewu Lu. I got my B.Eng at the School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University in 2023. My research interests include Embodied AI, Video World Model, Computer Human Interaction and Medical Robot. I'm always looking for related colaboration. If you are interested to chat with me, feel free to drop me an email.

Interests

Education

  Shanghai Innovation Institute
  Southeast University
  • Ph.D in Instrument Science and Engineering, Mar. 2025 - Now
  • Supervisor: Prof. Lifeng Zhu
  Southeast University
  • M.Sc in Instrument Science and Engineering, Sep. 2023 - Feb. 2025
  • Supervisor: Prof. Lifeng Zhu
  Southeast University
  • B.Eng in Measurement and Control Technology and Instrument, Sep. 2019 - Jun. 2023

Experiences

Mar, 2025 - Aug, 2025
Visiting Student @ ORoboSoul, SII
Focus on Embodied AI and VLA models.
Supervisor: Prof. Lixin Yang and Prof. Cewu Lu

News

  • 🎉 One paper accepted to the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations.
  • 🏆 As Team Leader, won 3rd Place in the IROS 2025 InternUtopia & Real-World Challenge, Track 1 (Manipulation).
  • 🎉 One paper accepted to the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, and nominated for 🏆 Best Poster Award.
  • 🎉 One paper accepted to the 32nd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, and selected for Oral presentation.
  • 🏆 Received the Outstanding Award (Top 5%) in the 18th “Challenge Cup” National College Student Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition.

Publications ( / )

Synergizing Understanding and Generation with Interleaved Analyzing-Drafting Thinking
Shengqiong Wu, Bobo Li, Xinkai Wang, Xiangtai Li, Lei Cui, Furu Wei, Shuicheng YAN, Hao Fei†, Tat-Seng Chua
NUS, NTU, Microsoft Research
ICLR 2026
[Paper]
Interaction As Intelligence: Deep Research With Human-AI Partnership
Lyumanshan Ye, Xiaojie Cai, Xinkai Wang, Junfei Wang, Xiangkun Hu, Jiadi Su, Yang Nan, Sihan Wang, Bohan Zhang, Xiaoze Fan, Jinbin Luo, Yuxiang Zheng, Tianze Xu, Dayuan Fu, Yunze Wu, Pengrui Lu, Zengzhi Wang, Yiwei Qin, Zhen Huang, Yan Ma, Zhulin Hu, Haoyang Zou, Tiantian Mi, Yixin Ye, Ethan Chern, Pengfei Liu†
SII-GAIR, SJTU
arXiv 2025
[Paper] [Website]
Impact of Target and Tool Visualization on Depth Perception and Usability in Optical See-Through AR
Yue Yang*, Xue Xie*, Xinkai Wang, Hui Zhang, Chiming Yu, Xiaoxian Xiong, Lifeng Zhu, Yuanyi Zheng, Jue Cen†, Bruce Daniel, Fred Baik†
Stanford University, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, SEU, HUST
ISMAR 2025, Best Poster Award
[Paper] [Code]
MRUCT: Mixed Reality Assistance for Acupuncture Guided by Ultrasonic Computed Tomography
Xinkai Wang*, Yue Yang*, Kehong Zhou, Xue Xie, Lifeng Zhu†, Aiguo Song, Bruce Daniel
SEU, Stanford University, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital
IEEE VR 2025 Oral
[Paper] [Code]
DipMe: Haptic Recognition of Granular Media for Tangible Interactive Applications
Xinkai Wang, Shuo Zhang, Ziyi Zhao, Lifeng Zhu†, Aiguo Song
SEU, JLU
arXiv 2024
[Paper] [Code]

GitHub

Selected Honors & Awards

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer:
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
International Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR)
The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
Journal Reviewer:
Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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