Hello

I’m Xiawei (William) Liu, a USC senior building reliable robotic systems and trustworthy ML.

I study Computer Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Southern California, supervised by Prof. Yue Wang in the Physical SuperIntelligence Lab.

My research centers on robot learning—developing generalizable, safe autonomy with data-efficient methods for dexterous, whole-body humanoid control. I focus on making humanoid robots perform coordinated, dynamic, and physically interactive tasks in the real world.

Los Angeles, CA Graduating 2026 Open to internships & research roles
Portrait of Xiawei (William) Liu
Xiawei (William) Liu

Publications

Selected papers and preprints.

Ψ₀ humanoid loco-manipulation demo

Ψ₀: An Open Foundation Model Towards Universal Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

ArXiv preprint

Songlin Wei*, Hongyi Jing*, Boqian Li*, Zhenyu Zhao*, Jiageng Mao, Zhenhao Ni, Sicheng He, Jie Liu, Xiawei Liu, Kaidi Kang, Sheng Zang, Marco Pavone, Di Huang, Yue Wang

Citation (BibTeX)
@misc{wei2026psi0openfoundationmodel,
  title={$\Psi_0$: An Open Foundation Model Towards Universal Humanoid Loco-Manipulation},
  author={Songlin Wei and Hongyi Jing and Boqian Li and Zhenyu Zhao and Jiageng Mao and Zhenhao Ni and Sicheng He and Jie Liu and Xiawei Liu and Kaidi Kang and Sheng Zang and Weiduo Yuan and Marco Pavone and Di Huang and Yue Wang},
  year={2026},
  eprint={2603.12263},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.RO},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12263},
}

Humanoid Everyday: A Comprehensive Robotic Dataset

ICRA 2026

Zhenyu Zhao*, Hongyi Jing*, Xiawei Liu, et al. “Humanoid Everyday: A Comprehensive Robotic Dataset for Open-World Humanoid Manipulation.”

Citation (BibTeX)
@misc{zhao2025humanoideverydaycomprehensiverobotic,
  title={Humanoid Everyday: A Comprehensive Robotic Dataset for Open-World Humanoid Manipulation},
  author={Zhenyu Zhao and Hongyi Jing and Xiawei Liu and Jiageng Mao and Abha Jha and Hanwen Yang and Rong Xue and Sergey Zakharor and Vitor Guizilini and Yue Wang},
  year={2025},
  eprint={2510.08807},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.RO},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08807},
}

Research experience

Brief affiliations.

Physical SuperIntelligence Lab (PSI Lab), USC

2025 — Present

Research with Prof. Yue Wang on humanoid robotics and learning.

Machine Learning with Prof. Pradeep Ravikumar, CMU

2024

Research collaboration in machine learning.