Lucas Xin

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Timeline

Projects, experiments, and things I am learning along the way.

2023

2025

FTC robot numbered 20827 on a practice field

Sep 2025 – Present

Team Engineering

FTC Robotics

Team-based robotics work around Java, the FTC SDK, robot control, and iterative engineering.

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Geometric placeholder cover for the AI Club

Oct 2025 – Present

Community & Education

AI Club Co-founder

Co-founded my school's first AI club, built an AI and CS information hub, and became its first student instructor for introductory AI classes and workshops.

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2026

Close-up of a white tendon-driven robotic hand on a workbench

Jan 2026 – Present

Robotics

Dexterous Hand Exploration

Exploring a 16-DOF tendon-driven hand, vision-based teleoperation, and the connection between perception and actuation.

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Illustration for Project SOCRATES

Mar 2026 – Aug 2026

AI Reliability

Project SOCRATES

Comparing human and language-model confidence: calibration, uncertainty, and the limits of behavioral evidence.

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Illustration for EWC / Permuted MNIST

Apr 2026

Continual Learning

EWC / Permuted MNIST

An experimental comparison of EWC, L2 regularization, and SGD across sequential Permuted MNIST tasks.

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A green campus quad and flagpole at CMU

Jun 2026 – Jul 2026

Computational Biology

BFIbs-Ensemble

Investigating whether crystallographic B-factors can help characterize cross-docking difficulty and guide ensemble docking.

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Group photo with robots in front of the IOAI event backdrop

Aug 2026

Volunteering

IOAI Volunteer

Debugging robots, explaining code to contestants, and interpreting between contestants and senior technical staff at IOAI.

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Geometric placeholder cover for the NAICT award

Aug 2026

Awards

NAICT Track 4 — National First Prize

Team captain for a supermarket-shelf robotics task: collected data, trained an ACT model from scratch, and handled deployment and debugging. Our team won National First Prize in August 2026.

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Geometric placeholder cover for the FTC Knowledge Bank

Aug 2026 – Present

Developer Tools

FTC Knowledge Bank

A knowledge base for new FTC teammates and a Kotlin standards guide for AI agents, covering coding conventions and tool usage.

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More to come

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