Jingxi (Blair) Lu

Ph.D. student in robotics at NC State University.

I work with Prof. Jaemin Lee in the Hybrid Intelligent Experimental Robotics Lab. My research focuses on safe learning, fault-tolerant control, and loco-manipulation for legged and humanoid robots.

I received my M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2026. Previously, I worked on quadruped locomotion, bipedal navigation, humanoid control, efficient vision-language model inference, and learning-assisted optimization.

  • Safe reinforcement learning
  • Fault-tolerant robot control
  • Legged and humanoid locomotion
  • Control barrier functions
Portrait of Jingxi Lu
Raleigh, North Carolina

Selected projects

A brief overview

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01

Safe robotics · Ongoing

Fault-Tolerant Quadruped Locomotion

Learning and safety-filtering methods that help a Unitree Go2 remain stable under weakened, locked, and zero-torque actuator failures.

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02

IEEE RA-L · ICRA 2026

STATE-NAV

Stability-aware traversability estimation and hierarchical planning for bipedal robots navigating rough terrain.

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03

Efficient multimodal inference

Visual-Token Pruning for Vision-Language Models

Training-free methods that reduce inference cost for autoregressive and diffusion vision-language models.

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