About Me
Welcome! I am Xingpeng Sun, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Purdue University. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Aniket Bera. Previously, I received my B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with Distinctive Scholastic Achievement.
My research sits at the intersection of foundation models, robotics, and graphics. I study how to strengthen the spatial reasoning, planning, and 3D understanding capabilities of vision-language models by grounding them in domain knowledge from robotics and computer graphics — with applications spanning mesh deformation, robot navigation, and automated inspection planning.
News
- 2026 TVCG Handle-based Mesh Deformation Guided By Vision Language Model accepted to IEEE TVCG!
- 2026 IROS Language-Guided Generation for Personalized Inspection Planning accepted to IROS 2026!
- 2025 IROS EfficientEQA accepted to IROS 2025!
- 06/2024 IROS TrustNavGPT accepted to IROS 2024 (Oral)!
- 02/2024 CVPR DL3DV-10K accepted to CVPR 2024!
Publications
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Handle-based Mesh Deformation Guided By Vision Language Model
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2026
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Language-Guided Generation for Personalized Inspection Planning
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026
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EfficientEQA: An Efficient Approach to Open-Vocabulary Embodied Question Answering
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
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IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024 (Oral)
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DL3DV-10K: A Large-Scale Scene Dataset for Deep Learning-based 3D Vision
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
Internship Experience
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Bosch Research, Sunnyvale, CA
- Research Intern
- May. 2026 ~ Aug. 2026
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Adobe Research, San Jose, CA
- Research Intern
- May. 2025 ~ Aug. 2025
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Lightspeed Studios, Bellevue, WA
- Research Intern
- Jun. 2024 ~ Aug. 2024