Assistant Professor (incoming)
Interactive Embodied Intelligence powered by World Model, Dexterous Control and Sensing, and Embodied Foundation Model.
Education/Work ExperienceJune 2024: Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
June 2024-Present: Postdoctoral Fellow, UC San Diego, Contextual Robotics Institute
Research AchievementsDuring the PhD, the research focus was on multimodal large models and visual perception, resulting in a series of first-authored influential works such as SEEM and X-Decoder. In the postdoctoral period, the research focus shifted to robot perception, policy learning, and dexterous manipulation, leading to cutting-edge projects like M3, NaVILA, and Dex1B, as a first author or core contributor. To date, a total of 16 papers have been published in top international conferences across computer vision (CVPR/ICCV/ECCV), machine learning (ICLR/NeurIPS), and robotics (RSS/CoRL/ICRA), with over 3,000 citations. And the open-source projects led by Xueyan have received over 8,000 stars on GitHub. In PhD, her first paper received the Best Paper Award at BMVC 2020, during PostDoc, she was awarded the TILOS Fellowship, and as a co-PI, she has received the Amazon Research Award (2025), NVIDIA Research Grant (2025), and the Accelerating Foundation Models Research Grant (2024). Please refer details at: https://maureenzou.github.io/