Jikai Wang
Ph.D. Candidate in Robotics & Computer Vision | Dexterous Manipulation | 3D Perception
My name is Jikai Wang (Wahng Jee-kai, 王继凯). I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, working in the Intelligent Robotics and Vision Lab under the guidance of Prof. Yu Xiang and co-advised by Prof. Xiaohu Guo.
My research focuses on robotic manipulation and perception, with an emphasis on 3D reconstruction, 6D pose estimation, and hand-object interaction for dexterous manipulation. I develop robust, scalable, and deployable systems that bridge perception and real-world robotic applications.
Prior to my Ph.D., I worked as a Senior Engineer at Ericsson (China), contributing to 4G/LTE core network design, system integration, and large-scale deployment.
I hold an M.S. in Computer Science from UT Dallas and a B.S. in Communications Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT).
Interests: Robotics • Computer Vision • AI • Embodied Intelligence
News
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| Jul 2025 | Our Supervised Team of High School Students Received the 2nd Prize CAST STAR Award in TAST-STEM Bridge Summer Camp 2025!   |
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| Jul 2024 | Our Supervised Team of High School Students Received the 2nd Prize CAST STAR Award in CAST-STEM Bridge Summer Camp 2024!  |
| Sep 2022 | Our paper Layered-Garment Net: Generating Multiple Implicit Garment Layers from a Single Image is accepted at ACCV 2022!  |
| Sep 2021 | I joined the Intelligent Robotics and Vision Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas as a Ph.D. student.  |
| Jul 2021 | Our Supervised Team of High School Students Received the 1st Prize CAST STAR Award in CAST-STEM Bridge Summer Camp 2021!   |
| May 2019 | I joined the Computer Graphics Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas as a M.S. student.  |
Publications
- From Local Matches to Global Masks: Novel Instance Detection in Open-World ScenesarXiv preprint, 2026
- HO-Cap: A Capture System and Dataset for 3D Reconstruction and Pose Tracking of Hand-Object InteractionIn The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2025
- Predictive Task Guidance with Artificial Intelligence in Augmented RealityIn IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2024
- CaptainCook4D: A Dataset for Understanding Errors in Procedural ActivitiesIn The Thirty-eight Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2024
Projects
Teaching
Academic Service:
- Reviewer | EgoAct @ RSS2025