CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY · THE AIRLAB

Xiang (Shawn) Fei.

PhD Student  ·  M.S. Robotics, CMU '26

I am a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), advised by Prof. Sebastian Scherer at the AirLab. I earned my M.S. in Robotics at the CMU Robotics Institute, advised by Prof. Howie Choset at the Biorobotics Lab. Before CMU I received my B.Eng. in Computer Science from CUHK-Shenzhen, advised by Prof. Junhua Zhao.

My research aims at learned, robust, and generalizable spatial perception for robotics.

Outside research I enjoy basketball, hiking & touring, race cars, LEGO, PC games, and time with my fiancée Waiwai — see my Misc page.

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Xiang Fei
PITTSBURGH, PA40.44°N · 79.99°W

Recent News

SEP 2026The code for DeformX is now released on GitHub 🚀 — give it a try!
JUN 2026Our paper “WireSeg-32K: A Physics-Grounded Synthetic Dataset for Wire Instance Segmentation” received the Best Short Paper Award at the CVPR 2026 Workshop 🏆. This work is part of DeformX, dataset now extended to WireSeg-36K.
APR 2026I passed my Master's thesis defense! 🎓
MAR 2026I've accepted the PhD offer at CMU! Looking forward to my PhD life 🎉!
MAR 2026Happy 3rd anniversary to me and Waiwai 🥰!
MAR 2025Happy 2nd anniversary to me and Waiwai 🥰!
MAY 2024Undergraduate Graduation 🎉! I graduated with First Class Honours from CUHK-Shenzhen.
APR 2024Waiwai is admitted to the MSIN program at CMU — congratulations to her! We can go to CMU together 🥳!
MAR 2024Happy 1st anniversary to me and Waiwai 🥰!
FEB 2024Offer of the M.S. in Robotics (MSR) program at CMU! Becoming a robotics scientist 🤖.
AUG 2023Finished the RISS summer research program at CMU 🎊, and presented my research poster at the final showcase!
MAR 2023Offer of the RISS program at CMU! Looking forward to joining CMU this summer 🤝.

Selected Publications

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Selected Projects

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Experience

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Miscellaneous

Outside of research, I enjoy basketball, hiking & touring, race cars, LEGO, PC games, and — most of all — spending time with my fiancée Waiwai. A few moments along the way:

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Fun Facts

On the name “edgarfx”

You might notice this site lives at edgarfx.github.io — which has nothing to do with “Shawn.” Through undergrad my English name was Edgar, given to me by my IELTS teacher right after high school (borrowed from a character in a play). Since “Shawn” sounds close to my Chinese name Xiang, I switched to it after coming to the US for grad school.

Sharing a name with a star

My Chinese name is a homophone of the famous singer and actor Fei Xiang (费翔) — though my “Xiang” uses a different character “祥”, meaning auspiciousness and good fortune (吉祥). At gatherings my friends love asking me to sing his songs… the truth is, I don't know a single one.

GET IN TOUCH

Let's talk robots, perception, and SLAM.

xiangfei@andrew.cmu.edu ↗
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