Gloria X. Wang

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Shenlong Wang and Prof. Nancy Amato. I am supported by the NSF GRFP.

I received my B.S. in Computer Science at UIUC, where I co-founded SIGRobotics. I have also spent summers working on VLAs and robotics infrastructure at Amazon Robotics, data analysis at Capital One, and LLM-finetuning at General Motors.

My research focuses on enabling robots to actively perceive, reason about, and interact with the physical world. I am interested in how robots can develop structured spatiotemporal memory to enable long-horizon decision-making and skill acquisition.

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Publications

* Equal Contribution

Human-like Navigation in a World Built for Humans
Bhargav Chandaka*, Gloria X. Wang*, Haozhe Chen, Henry Che, Albert J. Zhai, Shenlong Wang
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025
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NeRF2Physics: Physical Property Understanding from Language-Embedded Feature Fields
Albert J. Zhai, Yuan Shen, Emily Y. Chen, Gloria X. Wang, Xinlei Wang, Sheng Wang, Kaiyu Guan, Shenlong Wang
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
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Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models
The BIG-Bench Team
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2023
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NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation
The NL-Augmenter Team
Northern European Journal of Language Technology (NEJLT), 2023
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Teaching & Service

Course Assistant

UIUC CS 173 (Discrete Structures): Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024

UIUC CS 222 (Software Design Lab): Fall 2023, Spring 2024

Reviewer

CoRL 2026, NeurIPS 2026, CoRL 2025

Honors and Awards

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2026

Engineering Visionary Scholarship, 2025

DaRin Butz Foundation Research Scholar, 2024

Illinois Engineering Enhanced Scholarship, 2022-2026

Misc.

Outside of research, I like to travel, take photos, and eat/cook (find me on Beli: @gxyw).
And occasionally watch people design tiny apartments on YouTube.

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