I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science department at North Carolina State University. I previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Maryland Robotics Center at the University of Maryland, College Park. I obtained my Ph.D. degree at the Colorado School of Mines in 2022, supervised by Dr. Hao Zhang in the Human-Centered Robotics Lab. I am now serving as the Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL) and IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). I am also the first author of the best paper award for Agri-Robot at IROS 2023.
The central theme of my research focuses on collaborative autonomy to enable team awareness for multi-robot and human-autonomy teaming. This vision seeks to empower autonomous robots with the ability to collaboratively and autonomously comprehend both unstructured environments and their human and robotic teammates, thereby surpassing human-level collaboration for complex tasks in open-world settings. I published top-tier papers in robotics and machine learning conferences and journals, including RSS, ICRA, IROS, ICML, AAAI, IJRR, and AuRo.
