Yixuan Wang | 王怿轩

I am a second-year Master of Science in Computer Science student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), advised by Prof. Wenzhen Yuan. My research interests include tactile sensing and robotic manipulation, with a focus on contact-rich and dexterous manipulation.

Previously, I received a dual bachelor's degree (B.S. in Mathematics and Physics and B.E. in Mechanical Engineering) from Tsinghua University, where I worked with Huazhe Xu on visuomotor policy learning. I was also fortunate to be mentored by Yao Jiang, who introduced me to research.

Yixuan Wang

Publications

* denotes equal contribution

ContactBench 1.0: A Benchmark for Everyday Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
Jingyi Xiang, Yixuan Wang, Jeannette Bohg, Wenzhen Yuan
arXiv preprint
FORCA: A Force-Aware Coding Agent for Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation
Xiao Tan*, Yixuan Wang*, Zhexi Wang, Wenzhen Yuan
Learn@Deploy Workshop, CoRL, 2026
Tactile-Based Robotic Manipulation: From Mechanics-Driven to Data-Driven Perspectives
Jingyi Xiang, Yixuan Wang, Wenzhen Yuan
Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 2026
Graph-Based Force Estimation from Explicit Displacement Fields for Robot-Assisted Surgery
Undergraduate thesis project
Under review at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
DemoGen
DemoGen: Synthetic Demonstration Generation for Data-Efficient Visuomotor Policy Learning
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2025
SynData4CV Workshop, CVPR, 2025 Best Long Paper
Robot Learning Workshop, ICLR, 2025 Oral
@article{xue2025demogen,
  title={DemoGen: Synthetic Demonstration Generation for Data-Efficient Visuomotor Policy Learning},
  author={Xue, Zhengrong and Deng, Shuying and Chen, Zhenyang and Wang, Yixuan and Yuan, Zhecheng and Xu, Huazhe},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16932},
  year={2025}
}

Working Experience

Horizon Robotics Robotics Research Intern
Feb 2025 – May 2025
Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute Robotics Research Intern
Dec 2022 – Mar 2023

Miscellaneous