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陈天行 | Profile
Profile at a glance
Tianxing Chen is a PhD student at MMLab, The University of Hong Kong, co-founder and CTO of Xspark AI, and founder of the Lumina embodied-AI community. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from Shenzhen University. His work focuses on embodied-AI infrastructure, robot foundation models, data generation, and evaluation. His personal homepage lists research internships at ByteDance, Shanghai AI Laboratory, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, along with competition and paper awards.
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Experience
His work spans embodied-AI infrastructure, robot foundation models, data generation, and evaluation, alongside academic research and company building. The listed awards, project metrics, and community activity follow the personal homepage's own reporting.
Career and roles
- MMLab, The University of Hong Kong · PhD student
Current role (as reported in the cited source)
- Xspark AI (无界智航) · Co-founder and CTO
March 2026–present (as listed on the profile) · Works on embodied-AI infrastructure, robot foundation models, data generation, and evaluation, according to his public profile.
- Lumina embodied-AI community · Founder
May 2025–present (as listed on the profile) · Founded a community for embodied-AI research and practice.
- ByteDance Seed · Research intern
2025–2026 · The homepage lists work on VLA training, simulation-data scaling, and evaluation with the Edge Team.
- Shanghai AI Laboratory, OpenGVLab · Research intern
January 2024–2025 · The homepage lists research on manipulation policies and simulation evaluation.
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ScaleLab · Research intern
2025 · The homepage lists work on simulation-data scaling and evaluation.
Education
- College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University
B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology (September 2021–July 2025)
- MMLab, School of Computing and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong
PhD student supervised by Professor Ping Luo (from October 2025; expected June 2029)
Public record
- His homepage reports Best Paper Awards at the ICRA 2026 ViTac Workshop and ECCV 2024 MAAS Workshop; first place in the ECCV 2026 DexGraspMotion Challenge and NeurIPS 2025 MARS Challenge; and third place in the IROS 2025 AgiBot World Challenge.
- His homepage reports selection for the AI25 list by Sequoia China and MIT Technology Review China. At the time the page was updated, related open-source projects had nearly 20,000 GitHub stars and models had more than one million downloads.
Sources
- 1. Tianxing Chen (陈天行) · personal homepage
Tianxing Chen is a Co-Founder and CTO of Xspark AI and a PhD student at MMLab@HKU, supervised by Prof. Ping Luo.