The Grainger College of Engineering
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Yuxiong Wang

Yuxiong Wang
Yuxiong Wang
Assistant Professor
(217) 244-8913
3316 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science

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Research Honors

  • Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) (2020)

News Notes

  • 5/22/2026

    Two Grainger Engineering faculty, Yuxiong Wang, CS assistant professor, and Joohyung Kim, ECE associate professor, will bring their research projects to the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) URP 3.0, the next five-year phase of its University Research Program. The phase will include 69 projects across 31 universities with 88 TRI researchers and 104 faculty members, making it the largest cohort since the program’s inception. The projects selected cover all areas of TRI’s research, including AI advancement, robotics, driving and material science. 

  • 4/20/2026

    CS Professor Yuxiong Wang was selected for Dexmate Build with Vega U Research Grant Program for his proposal: "Scaling Bimanual Manipulation via Physics-Grounded Human-to-Robot Skill Transfer." The grant program aims to accelerate breakthroughs in Physical AI, embodied intelligence, and real-world robotics applications.