I am an Embodied Intelligence researcher. I received my Master of Science - Computer Science at The University of Melbourne and Bachelor of Science - Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

My research interest focuses on Embodied Intelligence related thing. I have published 0 paper at the top international AI, HCI and HRI conferences with 0 citation.

Most of the time, I prefer communicating through text messages :p

And I am looking for supply chain or trade collaborators for Cross-Border E-Commerce for Fabrics, and of course any academic/industry collaborations under the Embodied Intelligence theme.

🔥 News

• 2022.06:  🎉🎉 Graduated from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China
• 2024.07:  🎉🎉 Graduated from the University of Melbourne
• 2024.08:  🎉🎉 Start a new internship at Tongkun Co., Ltd as a Digital Transformation Analyst

📝 Publications

Front. Robot. AI 2025

TED-Culture: Make Conversational Virtual Agents and Social Robots Culturally Inclusive

Yixin Shen, Wafa Johal

Project

• Introducing the TED-Culture Dataset for cross-cultural gesture generation based on linguistic cues.
• Developing a novel generative model based on the DiffGesture framework, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the TED-Expressive Dataset and rapid convergence across several languages in the TED-Culture Dataset.
• Analyzing cultural factors using the TED-Culture Dataset, showing that people are more critical of outputs in familiar languages.
• Developing a robot prototype that maps our model’s gestures onto an NAO robot, enabling it to speak six languages with corresponding gestures.

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2022.09 Melbourne Graduate Scholarship
• 2022.06 Outstanding Graduate
• 2021.09 2020 Dean’s Scholarship & 2020 Zhejiang Province Scholarship
• 2020.10 University Club Leader Certificate & UNNC Book Club receives five-star club award
• 2020.09 2019 Head’s Scholarship & 2019 Zhejiang Province Scholarship
• 2019.09 2018 Head’s scholarship

📖 Educations

• 2022.07 - 2024.07, Master of Computer Science, University of Melbourne
• 2018.09 - 2022.06, Bachelor of Science - Computer Science with Artificial Ingelligence, Univeristy of Nottingham Ningbo China

💻 Projects

• 2023.07 - 2024.06, Gesture Generation for Social Robots/Agents
• 2021.06 - 2022.05, Deep Learning Based Response Generation for Medical Conversation
• 2020.06 - 2021.05, Visualization and Validation of Models for Credit Risk