About

👋 Hi, I’m Mingxi Jia. I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Brown University, advised by Professor Stefanie Tellex. I’m interested in building general-purpose learning-based robot manipulation algorithms. Before Brown, I got my master’s degree in Robotics (Computer Science concentration) from Northeastern University, Boston, where I was fortunate to work with Professor Robert Platt. I received my Bachelor’s degree (in Mechanical Design, Manufacturing, and its Automation) at Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT). Please feel free to send me an email via mingxi_jia@brown.edu if you have any questions!

📢 News

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  • 2024.08: Our paper, “IMAGINATION POLICY: Using Generative Point Cloud Models for Learning Manipulation Policies”, is accepted by CoRL!
  • 2023.09.22: Our paper, A General Theory of Correct, Incorrect, and Extrinsic Equivariance, is accepted by NeurIPS 2023!
  • 2022.11.23: Our work, SEIL: Simulation-augmented Equivariant Imitation Learning, will be presented in CoRL 2022 Workshop on Sim-to-Real Robot Learning!
  • 2022.09.15: Our paper, On-Robot Learning With Equivariant Models, is accepted by CoRL 2022!
  • 2022.07.15: Our paper, BulletArm: An Open-Source Robotic Manipulation Benchmark and Learning Framework, is accepted by ISRR 2022!

📝 Publications

RAL 2025
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Learning Efficient and Robust Language-conditioned Manipulation using Textual-Visual Relevancy and Equivariant Language Mapping

Mingxi Jia\(^*\), Haojie Huang\(^*\), Zhewen Zhang, Chenghao Wang, Linfeng Zhao, Dian Wang, Jason Xinyu Liu, Robin Walters, Robert Platt, Stefanie Tellex

RAL 2025

Paper Project

CoRL 2024
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IMAGINATION POLICY: Using Generative Point Cloud Models for Learning Manipulation Policies

Haojie Huang, Karl Schmeckpeper*, Dian Wang*, Ondrej Biza*, Yaoyao Qian, Haotian Liu, Mingxi Jia, Robert Platt, Robin Walters

CoRL 2024

Paper Project

NeurIPS 2023
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A General Theory of Correct, Incorrect, and Extrinsic Equivariance

Dian Wang, Xupeng Zhu, Jung Yeon Park, Mingxi Jia, Guanang Su, Robert Platt, Robin Walters

NeurIPS 2023

Paper Project

ICRA 2023
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SEIL: Simulation-augmented Equivariant Imitation Learning

Mingxi Jia\(^*\), Dian Wang\(^*\), Guanang Su, David Klee, Xupeng Zhu, Robin Walters, Robert Platt

ICRA 2023

Paper Project

CoRL 2022
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On-Robot Learning With Equivariant Models

Dian Wang, Mingxi Jia, Xupeng Zhu, Robin Walters, Robert Platt

CoRL 2022

Paper Project

ISRR 2022
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BulletArm: An Open-Source Robotic Manipulation Benchmark and Learning Framework

Dian Wang*, Colin Kohler*, Xupeng Zhu, Mingxi Jia, Robert Platt

ISRR 2022

Paper Project

đź“– Educations

  • 2023.09 - now, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Brown University, Providence.
  • 2021.09 - 2023.06, M.S. in Robotics (CS concentration), Northeastern University, Boston.
  • 2016.09 - 2020.06, B.Eng. in Mechanical Design, Manufacturing, and its Automation, Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT).