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General Information

Full Name Xinyi Wang
Address FRB, 2505 Hayward St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
E-mail xinywa@umich.edu
Phone (+734) 2775751

Education & Appointments

  • 09/2024 – Present
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Robotics Department
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
  • 10/2023 – 09/2024
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical & Automation Engineering
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
  • 08/2019 – 09/2023
    Ph.D. in Mechanical and Automation Engineering
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
    • Advisors: Prof. Ben M. Chen and Prof. Jie Huang
  • 09/2015 – 06/2019
    B.Eng. in Flight Vehicle Design and Engineering
    Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
  • 02/2017
    Visiting Student
    University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Research Grants

  • 2022 – 2025
    Enabling Autonomous, Persistent, and Adaptive Mobile Observational Networks Through Energy-Aware Dynamic Coverage (CPS: Medium)
    National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
    • Core member
    • Total funding: 1,000,000 USD
  • 2023 – 2025
    Socially Aware Safe Navigation for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems
    Toyota Research North America
    • Core member
    • Total funding: 150,000 USD
  • 2025 – 2027
    Aerial-Marine Collaborative Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems with Digital Twin Technology for Smart Oceans
    General Research Fund, Hong Kong
    • Proposal writer and Co-Investigator
    • Total funding: 1,134,931 HKD
  • 2024 – 2026
    Collaborative Task Assignment of Multi-Agent Unmanned Systems for Infrastructure Inspection
    General Research Fund, Hong Kong
    • Proposal writer and core member
    • Total funding: 1,369,862 HKD
  • 2023 – 2025
    Collaborative Search and Pursuit-evasion for Unmanned Systems in Cluttered Environments
    General Research Fund, Hong Kong
    • Proposal writer and core member
    • Total funding: 1,382,623 HKD
  • 2022 – 2024
    Advanced Motion Planning Techniques for the Cooperation of Multi-agent Systems
    General Research Fund, Hong Kong
    • Core member
    • Total funding: 815,601 HKD
  • 2020 – 2025
    Integrated Autonomous Building Inspection and Information Management
    InnoHK Centre for Logistics Robotics, Hong Kong
    • Core member

Technical Skills

  • Python, MATLAB, Julia, C++
  • PyTorch, Robot Operating System (ROS), Gazebo

Awards & Honors

  • 2024
    • Postdoctoral Scholarship, Innovation and Technology Fund of Hong Kong (10/2023 – 09/2024)
  • 2023
    • Professor Charles K. Ko Student Creativity Award, CUHK
    • Research Postgraduate Studentship, CUHK (2019 – 2023)
  • 2019
    • Outstanding Graduates, Xiamen University (Top 2%)
  • 2017
    • Third Prize, RoboMaster 2017 (The 16th National College Students Robotics Contest)
    • Xiamen International Bank Scholarship, Xiamen University (Top 4%)
  • 2016 – 2017
    • Merit Student, Xiamen University (Twice, Top 8%)

Academic Services

  • 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)