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

JUN 2026Our paper “DeformX: A Versatile Co-Simulation Framework for Deformable Linear Objects” was accepted by IROS 2026 🥳. Code will be released upon publication — stay tuned!
APR 2026I passed my Master's thesis defense! 🎓
MAR 2026I've accepted the PhD offer at CMU! Looking forward to my PhD life 🎉!
AUG 2024Our paper “Carbon Market Risk Estimation Using Quantum Conditional GAN and Amplitude Estimation” was published in Energy Conversion and Economics.
JUL 2024Our paper “Power System Fault Diagnosis with Quantum Computing and Efficient Gate Decomposition” was published in Scientific Reports (JCR Q1).
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!
JUL 2023Our paper “Linear-Layer-Enhanced Quantum Long Short-Term Memory for Carbon Price Forecasting” was published in Quantum Machine Intelligence — my first journal paper 🥳!
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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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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