About Me

I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Distributed Autonomous Systems and Control (DASC) Lab at the University of Michigan (UMich), led by Prof. Dimitra Panagou. Prior to this, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Unmanned Systems Research (USR) Group at Hong Kong Centre For Logistics Robotics (HKCLR), and an Honorary Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2023. I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at CUHK in 2023, where I was advised by Professor Ben M. Chen.

My research advances trustworthy robot autonomy by combining the learning method with the formal guarantees of control theory. Research Interests: Safety-critical Control, Reinforcement Learning, Multi-robot Task and Motion Planning, Generative Models for Robotics.

News

Jul. 2026 T-ASE “AMBUSH: Collaborative Capture in Complex Environments with Neural Acceleration” accepted to IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE).
Jun. 2025 IROS “Safe Navigation in Uncertain Crowded Environments Using Risk Adaptive CVaR Barrier Functions” accepted to IROS 2025.
Feb. 2025 L4DC “Multi-Constraint Safe Reinforcement Learning via Closed-Form Solution for Log-Sum-Exp Approximation of Control Barrier Functions” accepted to L4DC 2025.
Mar. 2024 ICRA “Sensor-based Multi-Robot Search and Coverage with Spatial Separation in Unstructured Environments” presented at ICRA 2024.

Selected Publications

  1. preprint
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    Reinforcement Learning for Risk Adaptation via Differentiable CVaR Barrier Functions
    Xinyi Wang, Taekyung Kim, Bardh Hoxha, Georgios Fainekos, and Dimitra Panagou
    In , 2026
    Under review
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  2. Automatica
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    Kalman-Bucy Filtering with Randomized Sensing: Fundamental Limits and Sensor Network Design for Field Estimation
    Xinyi Wang†*, Devansh R. Agrawal†, and Dimitra Panagou
    Automatica, 2025
    Under review
    PDF Website
  3. IROS
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    Safe Navigation in Uncertain Crowded Environments Using Risk Adaptive CVaR Barrier Functions
    Xinyi Wang, Taekyung Kim, Bardh Hoxha, Georgios Fainekos, and Dimitra Panagou
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
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  4. ICRA
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    Sensor-based Multi-Robot Coverage Control with Spatial Separation in Unstructured Environments
    Xinyi Wang, Jiwen Xu, Chuanxiang Gao, Yizhou Chen, Jihan Zhang, Chenggang Wang, and Ben M. Chen
    In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
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Academic Service

  • Journal reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.
  • Conference service: Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA); Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS); IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA); IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS); IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC); IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS).