Me
Xinkai WANG (王薪恺)
Southeast University (SEU) and Shanghai Innovation Institute (SII)
UMM · Vision-Language-Action · Video Model
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 & Robot Learning, Multimodal Understanding & Generation, Human-AI Interaction & Haptics, and Medical XR & Robotics. I'm always looking for related collaboration. If you are interested to chat with me, feel free to drop me an email.

Interests

Embodied AI & Robot Learning
Multimodal Understanding & Generation
Human-AI Interaction & Haptics
Medical XR & Robot-Assisted Intervention

Education

Shanghai Innovation Institute
Ph.D in Robotics, Sep. 2025 - Now
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.

News

Recent updates
  • One paper accepted to ECCV 2026 🇸🇪.
  • One paper accepted to ICLR 2026 🇧🇷.
  • As Team Leader, won 3rd Place in the IROS 2025 🇨🇳 InternUtopia & Real-World Challenge, Track 1 (Manipulation).
  • One paper accepted to ISMAR 2025 🇰🇷, and nominated for Best Poster Award.
  • One paper accepted to IEEE VR 2025 🇫🇷, and selected for Oral presentation.
  • Won Outstanding Award (Top 5%) in the 18th Challenge Cup National College Student Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition.

Publications

* Equal contribution   † Corresponding author
LaMP ECCV 2026 publication preview
LaMP: Learning Vision-Language-Action Policy with 3D Scene Flow as Latent Motion Prior
Xinkai Wang, Chenyi Wang, Yifu Xu, Mingzhe Ye, Fucheng Zhang, Jialin Tian, Xinyu Zhan, Lifeng Zhu, Cewu Lu, Lixin Yang
SEU, SJTU, SII, Noematrix
ECCV 2026
ICLR 2026 publication preview
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
DeepCognition publication preview
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
VISTA publication preview
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
MRUCT publication preview
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
DipMe publication preview
DipMe: Haptic Recognition of Granular Media for Tangible Interactive Applications
Xinkai Wang, Shuo Zhang, Ziyi Zhao, Lifeng Zhu, Aiguo Song
SEU, JLU
arXiv 2024

Honors & Awards

Selected honors
Challenge Cup award project preview
Dec, 2023 · National Competition

Outstanding Award (Top 5%)

18th "Challenge Cup" National College Student Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition.

Project: 力感智能月面轻巧型采样装置

Team: Ziyi Zhao, Yibing Yan, Xinkai Wang, Ruotian Chen, Mingyu Li, Yufei Yan, Fengyuan Liu, Yifei Xing.

IROS 2025 challenge award preview
Oct, 2025 · IROS 2025 Challenge

Third Place Award, Track 1: Manipulation

InternUtopia & Real-World Challenge on Multimodal Robot Learning.

Team RoboSoul: Xinkai Wang, Chenyi Wang, Fucheng Zhang, Xinyu Zhan, Bokai Lin, Yifu Xu.

Jul, 202419th Graduate Electronic Design Competition, East China Regional, First Prize.
2024-2025National Scholarship for Postgraduate Students.
2024-2025Outstanding Student Scholarship (Grade 1), SEU.
2023-2024Outstanding Student Scholarship (Grade 1), SEU.

Academic Services

Reviewing
Conference Reviewer
ICRA IEEE VR CHI
Journal Reviewer
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