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Xibin Yuan is a rising researcher at the forefront of robotic manipulation, with a focus on bridging the gap between perception and physical interaction. Their work centers on articulated object manipulation, 3D scene understanding, and vision-language integration for robotics. Yuan’s major contributions include the development of **UniAff**, a unified framework that combines 3D object-centric manipulation with task understanding, enabling robots to reason about affordances for tool usage and articulation. They also introduced **ArtGS**, which extends 3D Gaussian Splatting to create interactive visual-physical models for manipulating articulated objects, and a superpoint-based perception method that improves part segmentation in 3D point clouds for generalizable manipulation. Despite being early in their career, Yuan’s papers have already garnered over 7 citations, signaling growing recognition. Their work addresses critical challenges in robotics—such as kinematic constraints and physical reasoning—and has the potential to advance autonomous systems in manufacturing, healthcare, and service robotics. Yuan’s innovative approaches to integrating visual and physical models mark them as a promising contributor to the field.