Kangning Yin

I’m a Ph.D. student at the Apex Lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University advised by Professor Weinan Zhang. My research mainly focuses on robotics learning especially on humanoid robots.

Before that, I received my Master's degree from ShanghaiTech University, where I was advised by Professor Zheng Tian. I was a research intern at the Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, working closely with Professor Jianyu Chen on Agile Humanoid Locomotion. I also interned at TeleAI, where I collaborated with Dr. Chenjia Bai on developing whole-body controllers for humanoid robots. I obtained my Bachelor's degree from the Harbin Institute of Technology.

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Research

My research interests lie in humanoid robot control, navigation, character animation, 3D human motion generation and motion retrieval. My long-term goal is to bring humanoid robots into everyday life.

'*' indicates equal contribution.

	Towards Adaptable Humanoid Control via Adaptive Motion Tracking Tao Huang, Huayi Wang, Junli Ren, Kangning Yin, Zirui Wang, Xiao Chen, Feiyu Jia, Wentao Zhang, Junfeng Long, Jingbo Wang, Jiangmiao Pang In Submission*, 2025 webpage / arxiv / paper / code /
	Unveiling the Impact of Data and Model Scaling on High-Level Control for Humanoid Robots Yuxi Wei, Zirui Wang, Kangning Yin , Yue Hu, Jingbo Wang, Siheng Chen In Submission, 2025 arxiv / paper /
	Behavior Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots Weishuai Zeng, Shunlin Lu, Kangning Yin, Xiaojie Niu, Minyue Dai, Jingbo Wang, Jiangmiao Pang In Submission, 2025 webpage / arxiv / paper /
	UniTracker: Learning Universal Whole-Body Motion Tracker for Humanoid Robots Kangning Yin, Weishuai Zeng, Ke Fan, Zirui Wang, Qiang Zhang, Zheng Tian, Jingbo Wang, Jiangmiao Pang, Weinan Zhang In Submission, 2025 webpage / arxiv / paper /
	Multi-Modal Motion Retrieval by Learning a Fine-Grained Joint Embedding Space Shiyao Yu, ZiAn Wang, Kangning Yin, Zheng Tian, Mingyuan Zhang, Weixin Si, Shihao Zou IEEE TMM 2025 (JCR Q1), 2025 arxiv /
	Agile Humanoid Locomotion by Learning from Human Demonstrations Kangning Yin, Yingguang Xing , Yao Mu, Jianyu Chen, Zheng Tian Under Review, 2025 paper / video /
	Tri-Modal Motion Retreival by Learning a Joint Embedding Space Kangning Yin, Shihao Zou, Yuxuan Ge , Zheng Tian CVPR (Highlight), 2024 webpage / arxiv / paper /
	RACon: Retrieval-Augmented Simulated Character Locomotion Control Yuxuan Mu, Shihao Zou, Kangning Yin, Zheng Tian, Li Cheng, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang ICME (Oral), 2024 arxiv /