Lixing Fang (房励行)

I am a 1st-year Ph.D. student at CICS, University of Massachusetts Amherst, supervised by Prof. Chuang Gan. My recent research interests mainly focus on human motion, human skills, and humanoid robots.

Before that, I completed my Bachelor degree in IIIS (a.k.a. Yao Class) at Tsinghua University. At there I was an undergraduate member at the 3DVICI Lab of IIIS advised by Prof. Li Yi, working on hand motion synthesis. In 2023, I spent six months as a research intern at UC San Diego advised by Prof. Xiaolong Wang, working on dexterous hand manipulation.

Email: lixingfang@umass.edu

Publications

*Equal Contribution

Virtual Community: An Open World for Humans, Robots, and Society
Qinhong Zhou, Hongxin Zhang, Xiangye Lin, Zheyuan Zhang, Yutian Chen, Wenjun Liu, Zunzhe Zhang, Sunli Chen, Lixing Fang, Qiushi Lyu, Xinyu Sun, Jincheng Yang, Zeyuan Wang, Bao Chi Dang, Zhehuan Chen, Daksha Ladia, Jiageng Liu, Chuang Gan
ICML 2025 MAS
[Project]

A Simulation Platform for Robotic Skill Learning in Unbounded Soft Environments
Chunru Lin, Jugang Fan, Yian Wang, Zeyuan Yang, Zhehuan Chen, Lixing Fang, Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Zhou Xian, Chuang Gan
CoRL 2024
[PDF]

CAMS: CAnonicalized Manipulation Spaces for Category-Level Functional Hand-Object Manipulation Synthesis
Juntian Zheng*, Lixing Fang*, Qingyuan Zheng*, Yun Liu, Li Yi
CVPR 2023
[Project] [PDF]

Experience

Research Intern, ECE, UC San Diego
2023/02 -- 2023/08
Mentor: Xiaolong Wang

Research Intern, Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute
2022/07 -- 2022/08
Mentor: Li Yi

Education

PhD (in progress), CICS, UMass Amherst
2024/09 -- Now
Mentor: Chuang Gan

Bachelor, IIIS, Tsinghua University
2020/09 -- 2024/06

Misc

  • I was an active competitive programmer throughout high school and undergraduate, earning multiple regional podium finishes in ACM/ICPC.
  • I was the goalkeeper for the IIIS team, and I also enjoy watching baseball. I support the LA Dodgers (MLB) and Shimizu S-Pulse (J.League).
  • I collect CDs of J-pop and J-rock. My favorite artist is HIMEHINA and I also enjoy bands like Hitorie and Back Number. I play bass in spare time.