Yuxuan Nai

Humanoids will bear witness to true intelligence.

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in the College of Control Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University, advised by Prof. Liangjing Yang and co-advised by Prof. Zhongyu Li at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). My collaborating advisor is Prof. Chao Xu at ZJU FAST-Lab.

My former Ph.D. advisor was Prof. Hua Chen, now Full-Time CTO at LimX Dynamics.

I am currently an intern at Mondo Robotics, mentored by Shuo Yang.

I am fortunate to work with Leixin Chang, whose guidance has been invaluable at the beginning of my academic journey.

My research interests lie in humanoid loco-manipulation: how to bridge high-level behavior cloning (BC) with low-level dynamics.

Yuxuan Nai

Education

Publications

* Equal contribution (co-first authors) · † Corresponding author

Quadrotor transporting and releasing a cable-suspended payload in an indoor test area

Dynamic Payload Release and Transportation by a Quadrotor with Cable-Suspended Payload System Using Bilevel Optimization

Yuxuan Nai, Ding Jiang, Ziyin Han, Chengyu Yang, Sheng Cheng†, Naira Hovakimyan†

WRC Symposium on Advanced Robotics and Automation (WRC SARA), 2026 · Accepted

Undergraduate research project · UIUC

Internship

AGIBOT

A3 Humanoid Perceptive Parkour

Intern · 01/2026 – 03/2026

Advisor: Taiyu Li

Unified locomotion policy and terrain-aware parkour for the A3 humanoid.

Honors and Awards

Leadership

Photography Club Leader · ZJU-UIUC

08/2023 – 08/2024

Founded and led the institute's first photography club.