Dayu Xia VLA/WAM @Tsinghua University

Dayu Xia

Hi There! I am Dayu Xia, a student from Tsinghua University. I am interested in agentic robotics and post-training. I am originally from Shanghai, China. Feel free to reach me at dyxia1241 at gmail dot com !

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Dayu Xia

Education

Tsinghua University

M.Eng. in Data Science

09/2026 - 06/2028

Zhejiang University

B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering

09/2022 - 06/2026

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

09/2022 - 06/2026

Publications

RoboProcessBench: Benchmarking Process-Aware Understanding in Vision-Language Robotic Manipulation

D. Xia*, Y. Shi*, Y. Mu, H. Ji, C. Ma, Y. Zhou, H. Chen, Y. Liu, J. Cao, and G. Zhai.

NeurIPS 2026 (Evaluation & Dataset Track). Accepted PDF

Robotic manipulation Vision-language models Benchmark

Robotic Trail Maker Platform for Rehabilitation in Neurological Conditions: Clinical Use Cases

S. Annamraju*, H. Nisar*, D. Xia*, S. A. Deka, A. Horowitz, N. Milkovic, and D. M. Stipanovic.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.19230, 2025. International Journal of Social Robotics under review. PDF

Medical robotics Rehabilitation Human-robot interaction

Internship Experience

Research Intern, Shanghai AI Laboratory

Supervised by Prof. Yao Mu and Dr. Yue Shi

  • Benchmark fine-grained process understanding of VLMs via scaleable manipulative primitive segmentation.
  • Finetune Ï€0, Ï€0.5 using tele-operated data via openpi and implement policies on ARX-AC 2 in real world.
  • Couple a progress expert based on Fast-WAM to jointly model video, action and progress.
2026.03 - 2026.08

Research Intern, IM Motors

Supervised by Dr. Wenbo Ding

  • Implement large-scale SFT on Qwen3-VL-8B via ~80k real-world driving data to construct a reasoning expert.
  • Apply data augmentation via SynDiff-AD to better model generalization against long-tail distribution scenarios.
2025.08 - 2025.10