Sunshine (Xinyun) Jiang

sunsh16e at mit dot edu

I'm a master's student at MIT CSAIL advised by Prof. Leslie Kaelbling & a senior at MIT, double majoring in EECS and physics.

My intellectual journey has been driven by my desire to deepen our understanding of the physical world and develop embodied intelligent systems informed by this understanding. My research interests lie in generative models for embodied AI and robotics, aiming to design systems capable of reasoning, acting, and adapting in the real world.

I previously worked as an undergraduate researcher at LIS advised by Prof. Leslie Kaelbling and Prof. Tomas Lozano-Perez. I also worked as an undergraduate researcher at RRG advised by Prof. Nicholas Roy.

In my free time, I do figure skating and dance. I love watching musicals and going to art exhibitions. And I enjoy exploring food places and posting them on instagram - I am now the go-to person for food recommendations among my friends.

Updates

May 2025 🏆 Our paper on Streaming Flow Policy was a Best Paper Nominee (3/21 papers) at the Beyond Pick and Place Workshop at ICRA 2025!
May 2025 Our paper on Streaming Flow Policy is accepted to ICRA 2025 Beyond Pick and Place Workshop!
Jan 2025 Our paper on Anomaly detection using diffusion models for off-road navigation is accepted to ICRA 2025!

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MEng in EECS

B.S. Double Major in Physics & EECS
Double Minor in Math & Economics
2021 - Present

Selected Courses: Autonomy and Decision Making (Teaching Assistant), Representation, Inference and Reasoning in AI (Teaching Assistant), Machine Learning (Lab Assistant, A+), Algorithm (Tutor, A), Planning under Uncertainty (A+), Robotic Manipulation (A), Computer Vision (A), Signal, system and inference (A), Embedded System (A), Computation Structure (A), Optimization Methods (A)