|
Haixin Jin I am an incoming PhD student at Virginia Tech, where I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Simon Stepputtis. Prior to that, I received my master’s degree at the University of California, San Diego, where I had the opportunity to work with many outstanding researchers, including Prof. Sylvia Herbert, Prof. Michael Yip, Prof. Sicun Gao and Dr. Nikhil Uday Shinde. Email / |
|
News |
|
[2026.03] I graduated from UC San Diego! I am DEEPLY grateful to my mentor, Dr. Nikhil Uday Shinde, for his professional and patient guidance in both my research and PhD application, and to my best friend, future Dr. Carolyn Zhang, for her constant support and encouragement throughout my journey. |
ResearchI am interested in developing robot learning methods for manipulation that make people’s lives more convenient, particularly for household robots, with a focus on language-conditioned and semantic-aware methods, learning-based control, and safety control. |
|
Learning to Nudge: A Scalable Barrier Function Framework for Safe
Robot Interaction in Dense Clutter
Haixin Jin*, Nikhil Uday Shinde*, Soofiyan Atar, Hongzhan Yu, Dylan Hirsch, Sicun Gao, Michael Yip, Sylvia Herbert Under Review, 2026 paper / Developed a scalable safety framework for manipulation, leveraging supervised learning in Isaac Lab to train robot arms to operate in dense, contact-rich environments. |
|
|