James Xu
Senior Research Scientist at Ant Group
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJames Xu is a Senior Research Scientist based in New York with a decade of experience building robot learning systems that bridge machine learning, control, and healthcare applications. With a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia and roles at Ant Group and the RAI Institute, he focuses on visuotactile multimodal foundation models and Physical AI that tightly link open-source development with academic research. His background includes hands-on visuotactile data collection, reinforcement learning and active planning work at GRASP Lab and MIT, reflecting a rare blend of applied experimentation and theoretical rigor. James often operates at the intersection of deployed robotics and academic foundations, emphasizing reproducibility and community-facing toolchains that accelerate real-world manipulation research.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BEng Computer Science and Electronics, Bachelor of Engineering - BEng Computer Science and Electronics at The University of EdinburghDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Columbia University
Chinese, English, Chinese
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Github Skills (141)
kinematics10
simulator10
bullet10
robotics10
collision-detection10
sdk10
pybullet10
actor-critic10
collision10
reinforcement-learning10
bullet-physics10
simulation10
physics-engine10
keras10
wandb9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jingxixu/lis-work
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:73 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
jingxixu/COMSW4111-Database
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:36 commits in 2 months
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