Quanting (Daniel) Xie

Quanting (Daniel) Xie

PhD student @ CMU RI

About

About

I’m a second-year PhD student at the CLAW Lab at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), advised by Prof. Yonatan Bisk. I have also had the opportunity to closely work with Prof. Matthew Johnson-Roberson and Prof. Chris Atkeson.

I research robot manipulation and novel hardware to reduce the embodiment gap and sim-to-real gaps in dexterous manipulation. Previously, I worked on LLM spatial reasoning.

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Research

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Affordance RAG: Hierarchical Multimodal Retrieval with Affordance-Aware Embodied Memory for Mobile Manipulation
Affordance RAG: Hierarchical Multimodal Retrieval with Affordance-Aware Embodied Memory for Mobile Manipulation
Ryosuke Korekata, Quanting Xie, Yonatan Bisk, Katuhito Sugiura
RA-L, 2025
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Unsupervised Discovery of Long-Term Spatiotemporal Periodic Workflows in Human Activities
Unsupervised Discovery of Long-Term Spatiotemporal Periodic Workflows in Human Activities
Fan Yang, Quanting Xie, Atsunori Moteki, Shoichi Masui, Shan Jiang, Kanji Uchino, Yonatan Bisk, Graham Neubig
2025
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High Torque Density PCB Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Motor for Micro Robots
High Torque Density PCB Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Motor for Micro Robots
Jianren Wang, Quanting Xie, Jie Han, Yang Zhang, Christopher G. Atkeson, Abhinav Gupta, Deepak Pathak, Yonatan Bisk
IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo 2025, 2025
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MM-SeR: Multimodal Self-Refinement for Lightweight Image Captioning
MM-SeR: Multimodal Self-Refinement for Lightweight Image Captioning
Junha Song, Yongsik Jo, So Yeon Min, Quanting Xie, Taehwan Kim, Yonatan Bisk, Jaegul Choo
2025
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Embodied-RAG: General non-parametric Embodied Memory for Retrieval and Generation
Embodied-RAG: General non-parametric Embodied Memory for Retrieval and Generation
Quanting Xie, So Yeon Tiffany Min, Tianyi Zhang, Aarav Bajaj, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Yonatan Bisk
2024
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Toward General-Purpose Robots via Foundation Models: A Survey and Meta-Analysis
Toward General-Purpose Robots via Foundation Models: A Survey and Meta-Analysis
Quanting Xie, Yafei Hu, Vidhi Jain, Jay Patrikar, Nikhil Keetha, Jonathan Francis, Yaqi Xie, Seungchan Kim, Tianyi Zhang, Shibo Zhao, Yu-Quan Chong, Zsolt Kira, Dhruv Batra, Xiaolong Wang, Chen Wang, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Katia Sycara, Sebastian Scherer, Fei Xia, Yonatan Bisk
2023
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Reasoning about the Unseen for Efficient Outdoor Object Navigation
Reasoning about the Unseen for Efficient Outdoor Object Navigation
Quanting Xie, Tianyi Zhang, Kedi Xu, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Yonatan Bisk
2023
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Experience

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
PhD Student, Robotics Institute, 2024-Present
Carnegie Mellon University
Apple, Cupertino, CA
Manufacturing Design Engineering Intern, 2022
Apple
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering - Research, 2023
Carnegie Mellon University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, 2021
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Professional Service

  • Reviewer for CoRL, ICRA, RA-L, IROS

☕ Misc

  • I am a professional Ping Pong player and an avid fan of racket sports (Tennis, Badminton, and Pickleball).

  • I enjoy being outdoors—you can often find me on the golf course or hitting the slopes for skiing and snowboarding.

  • I train in Mixed Martial Arts, specifically practicing Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) whenever I have the time.

  • I have a passion for precision engineering and enjoy assembling mechanical watches from scratch.