Xiaolong Wang

Xiaolong Wang is a researcher in computer vision, machine learning, and robotics. He is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He co‑founded Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup building AI models for humanoid robots, which was acquired by Meta in May 2026, bringing the team into Meta’s Superintelligence Labs. His work focuses on learning 3D and dynamic visual representations from video and interaction, self‑supervised learning, and robot skill learning. He previously worked as a researcher at NVIDIA and was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. He earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University after earlier studies in China.

Current roles include Co‑Founder at Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) and Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, San Diego. Based in San Diego, California, United States.

Earlier roles include Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, San Diego, Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR), UC Berkeley, and Visiting Researcher at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR), UC Berkeley.