About Me

Hi, I am Mingxuan Li (李明暄). I am a Master student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University (THU). I am now a member of AutoRobot Lab, advised by Prof. Yao Jiang. Previously, I also obtained my bachelor’s degree in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University.

Currently, I am working as a visiting student at MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), under the supervision of Prof. Edward H. Adelson. I‘m willing to collaborate and discuss ideas with researchers from different institutions and fields. Please feel free to contact me.

I am the Vice President and Academic Affairs Representative of the Graduate Association, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University. Previously, I was a graduate of “Spark” (星火) Innovative Talent Cultivation Program for Students of Tsinghua University (Top 1% for outstanding research performance), the student head of the ClearTactile (清触未来) tech startup team (academic research & entrepreneurship), and vice president of Hunan Cultural Student Association of Tsinghua (in charge of science & innovation and lecture activities).

Research Interests

My research interests include Tactile Perception & Grasping, Vision-Based Tactile Sensors, Contact Modelling. I am currently focusing on improving robot grasping and manipulation through contact modelling and tactile sensing [brief introduction of my previous research].

Events

• Reviewer: ICRA 2024, ICRA 2025 (twice), IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (twice), Measurement, Visual Computer, Scientific Reports, Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering

• 2025 Jan: Learning Gentle Grasping from Human-Free Force Control Demonstration accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

• 2024 Dec: Awarded the Wang Dazhong Scholarship (One of the highest awards for students at Tsinghua University) in 2024 Tsinghua Scholarship Awards Ceremony

• 2024 Nov: Shortlisted for Tsinghua Top Grade Scholarship (Prestigious Scholarship, 清华大学特等奖学金) in 2024 (five master students per year from all departments and grades)

• 2024 Sep: OneTip: A soft tactile interface for 6-D fingertip pose acquisition in human-computer interaction accepted by Sensors and Actuators A: Physical

• 2024 Jul: EasyCalib: Simple and Low-Cost In-Situ Calibration for Force Reconstruction with Vision-Based Tactile Sensors accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

• 2024 Jun: Serves as the Vice President and Academic Affairs Representative of the Graduate Association, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University

• 2024 May: Attended 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) and presented our work Incipient Slip-Based Rotation Measurement via Visuotactile Sensing During In-Hand Object Pivoting (oral and poster). [Poster] [Slides]

• 2024 Apr: Received First Prize of Excellent Oral Presentation, The 734th Doctoral Academic Forum of Tsinghua University

• 2024 Apr: Served as the Chairman of the Sub-forum and a Member of the Organizational Committee, The 734th Doctoral Academic Forum of Tsinghua University

• 2023 Dec: Received Excellent academic paper, The 16th National Conference on Undergraduate Innovation [news report in Chinese]

• 2023 Nov: Exceptionally awarded the Tsinghua University Comprehensive Excellent First-Class Scholarship as a first-year graduate [news report in Chinese]

• 2023 Aug: Real-time and Robust Feature Detection of Continuous Marker Pattern for Dense 3-D Deformation Measurement accepted by Measurement

• 2023 Aug: Improving the Representation and Extraction of Contact Information in Vision-based Tactile Sensors Using Continuous Marker Pattern accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters