Yichen Xie (谢熠辰)

Hi, there! I am a fourth-year Ph.D. (Sep. 2021 - ) at UC Berkeley under the supervision of under the supervision of Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka in the Mechanical Systems Control (MSC) Lab, which is affiliated with the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR). During my graduate study, I am fortunate to have the opportunity as an intern at Apple, Waymo, and Cruise.

Prior to this, I obtained my B.Eng (Sep. 2017 - Jun. 2021) in Computer Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with an honor degree at Zhiyuan Honors Program, where I was advised by Prof. Cewu Lu and Prof. Quanshi Zhang.

My research interests lie in computer vision and robotics, especially in 3D scene understanding and embodied agents.

I am open to collaboration!
I am seeking for reseacher opportunities in industry in 2026!
Please feel free to contact me if interested!

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yichen_xie@berkeley.edu


Recent News
  • [05/2025] Starting Machine Learning Intern position at Apple.
  • [02/2025] Two papers accepted by CVPR 2025.
  • [01/2025] Two papers accepted by ICRA 2025.
  • [01/2025] Two papers accepted by ICLR 2025.

Selected Publications (see full list)

S4-Driver: Scalable Self-Supervised Driving Multimodal Large Language Modelwith Spatio-Temporal Visual Representation

Yichen Xie, Runsheng Xu, Tong He, Jyh-Jing Hwang, Katie Luo, Jingwei Ji, Hubert Lin, Letian Chen, Yiren Lu, Zhaoqi Leng, Dragomir Anguelov, Mingxing Tan

CVPR 2025

X-Drive: Cross-modality consistent multi-sensor data synthesis for driving scenarios

Yichen Xie, Chenfeng Xu, Chensheng Peng, Shuqi Zhao, Nhat Ho, Alexander T. Pham, Mingyu Ding, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Wei Zhan

ICLR 2025

Cohere3D: Exploiting Temporal Coherence for Unsupervised Representation Learning of Vision-based Autonomous Driving

Yichen Xie, Hongge Chen, Gregory P. Meyer, Yong Jae Lee, Eric M. Wolff, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Wei Zhan, Yuning Chai, Xin Huang

ICRA 2025

Sparse Diffusion Policy: A Sparse, Reusable, and Flexible Policy for Robot Learning

Yixiao Wang, Yifei Zhang, Mingxiao Huo, Ran Tian, Xiang Zhang, Yichen Xie, Chenfeng Xu, Pengliang Ji, Wei Zhan, Mingyu Ding, Masayoshi Tomizuka

CoRL 2024

AnyGrasp: Robust and Efficient Grasp Perception in Spatial and Temporal Domains

Hao-Shu Fang, Chenxi Wang, Hongjie Fang, Minghao Gou, Jirong Liu, Hengxu Yan, Wenhai Liu, Yichen Xie, Cewu Lu

T-RO 2023

SparseFusion: Fusing Multi-Modal Sparse Representations for Multi-Sensor 3D Object Detection

Yichen Xie, Chenfeng Xu, Marie-Julie Rakotosaona, Patrick Rim, Federico Tombari, Kurt Keutzer, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Wei Zhan

ICCV 2023

Towards Free Data Selection with General-Purpose Models

Yichen Xie, Mingyu Ding, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Wei Zhan

NeurIPS 2023

Active Finetuning: Exploiting Annotation Budget in the Pretraining-Finetuning Paradigm

Yichen Xie, Han Lu, Junchi Yan, Xiaokang Yang, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Wei Zhan

CVPR 2023

Zero-Shot Policy Transfer with Disentangled Task Representation of Meta-Reinforcement Learning

Zheng Wu*, Yichen Xie*, Wenzhao Lian, Changhao Wang, Yanjiang Guo, Jianyu Chen, Stefan Schaal, Masayoshi Tomizuka

ICRA 2023

Spatio-temporal Self-Supervised Representation Learning for 3D Point Clouds

Siyuan Huang*, Yichen Xie*, Song-Chun Zhu, Yixin Zhu

ICCV 2021

DIRV: Dense Interaction Region Voting for End-to-End Human-Object Interaction Detection

Hao-Shu Fang*, Yichen Xie*, Dian Shao, Cewu Lu

AAAI 2021

Interpreting Multivariate Shapley Interactions in DNNs

Hao Zhang*, Yichen Xie*, Longjie Zheng, Die Zhang, Quanshi Zhang

AAAI 2021


Services
  • Reviewer of CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICRA, IROS, R-AL.
Selected Honors
  • Zhiyuan Outstanding Student Scholarship, 2021.
  • China National Scholarship, 2018, 2019, 2020.

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