Ankit Kumar Shaw

About Me

I am recently graduated Master’s student in Mechanical Engineering under the School of Vehicle and Mobility at Tsinghua University, China, supervised by Prof. Yang Diange. Before that, I received BTech. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology, India.

Research Interests

• Robotics: Embodied AI, Visuo-Tactile based Robot Learning and Dexterous Manipulation, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Multimodal Sensing and Robot Perception
• Autonomous Driving:: Visual Language Model (VLM) based Perception and Planning, Scene Understanding and Mapping

News

• [Apr. 2025] One paper (ViTaMIN) gets accepted to ICRA’25 CRM Workshop 🎉
• [Apr. 2025] One paper is under review at CoRL’25
• [Apr. 2025] One paper (CleanMAP) gets accepted to CVPR’25 WDFMAD Workshop 🎉
• [Feb. 2025] One paper is under review at ICCV’25
• [Dec. 2024] Successfully defended my Masters thesis at Tsinghua University
• [Dec. 2023] Invited Talk by SA Zhang, Evangelist from Jina AI on Prompt Engineering with PromptPerfect
• [Dec. 2023] Invited Talk by Dr. Deyao Zhu, Author of MiniGPT-4 on Exploring MiniGPT-4, Its Motivation and Techniques
• [Nov. 2023] Invited Talk by Lu Mi (MIT) and Janna Hong (TSAIL Lab, MIT) at the TAIS × i2 Event “Bridge the Gap Between Biological and Artificial Neural Networks”, co-hosted by University of Washington, Allen Institute, and Tsinghua University.
• [Sep. 2023] Invited Talk by Prof. Kris Singh on Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Global Digital Economy
• [Mar. 2023] Joined Future Robotics Club at Tsinghua University
• [Jan. 2023] Appointed as a President at Tsinghua AI for Student (TAIS) Club
• [May. 2022] Joined Vision-CAIR at KAUST as a visiting student
• [Feb. 2022] Best Solution Award by AWS Disaster Response Hackathon
• [Oct. 2021] Awarded Second Class Meritorious Scholarship (英才⼆等奖学 ⾦)
• [Sep. 2020] Started my Master journey at Tsinghua University
• [Aug 2020] Awarded Chinese Government Scholarship
• [Jun. 2020] Successfully defended my Bachelor thesis

Experience

• [May 2024 - Nov 2024] Research Scientist Intern, XR Core AI, Meta
• [Dec 2021 - Mar 2022] Visiting Research Student at Mohamed Elhoseiny's Group, KAUST
• [Dec 2020 - Mar 2021] Research Assistant at Yongfeng Huang's Group, Tsinghua University

Publications [Google Scholar]

Services

Conference Reviewer

• IROS 2025
• CVPR, ECCV, AAAI, ICLR
• SIGGRAPH Asia, NeurIPSW

Journal Reviewers

• IJCV, CVIU

My World, Outside the Lab

Travel & Food: Every city I visit leaves a fingerprint on my soul, and every dish is a dialogue—together, they turn each journey into a story flavored with culture, memory, and taste.

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