Yixuan Wang is a final-year PhD candidate in Computer Science at Columbia University, advised by Prof. Yunzhu Li, as well as a Research Scientist in NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab. His research focuses on using foundation models for robotic manipulation and building world models from robotic interactions. His work has received recognition including a CoRL 2024 oral presentation, CoRL 2023 Best Paper and Best Student Paper finalist honors, an ICRA 2024 Best Paper Award, multiple workshop best paper awards, and selection as a 2025 Qualcomm Fellowship Finalist and G-Research 2026 PhD Prize.

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