About Me
I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), advised by Prof. Jiankun Wang and co-advised by Prof. Hong Zhang. My research focuses on robot person following (RPF), particularly motion planning, control, and vision-language models (VLMs) in human-centered environments. My long-term goal is to develop socially intelligent robots that can follow and assist people while adapting to their behavior and respecting social norms.
Before starting my Ph.D., I worked as a research and teaching assistant at the Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Robotic Perception and Intelligence, SUSTech, in 2025, working with Prof. Jiankun Wang and Prof. Max Q.-H. Meng. From 2023 to 2024, I was a research assistant at the Quanzhou Institute of Equipment Manufacturing, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), working with Prof. Houde Dai.
I received my B.Eng. in Automation from Huaqiao University in 2020. I was subsequently admitted to the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) through a recommendation-based admission process and received my M.Eng. in Control Engineering in 2023. During my master’s studies, I pursued research at the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, CAS.
News
- 2026.11 One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems.
- 2026.09 One paper is accepted by International Journal of Social Robotics.
- 2026.08 LSTP-Nav is accepted by TASE.
- 2026.06 TARIC is accepted by RAL.
- 2026.02 One paper is accepted by RAL.
- 2026.01 Adap-RPF and EZREAL are accepted by ICRA 2026.
- 2025.10 Check out our latest work, “Adap-RPF: Adaptive Trajectory Sampling for Robot Person Following in Dynamic Crowded Environments.”
- 2025.09 Check out our recent work, “Follow-Bench: A Unified Motion Planning Benchmark for Socially-Aware Robot Person Following.”
- 2025.09 Check out our recent work, “EZREAL: Enhancing Zero-Shot Outdoor Robot Navigation toward Distant Targets under Varying Visibility.”
- 2025.07 Check out our recent work, “LSTP-Nav: Lightweight Spatiotemporal Policy for Map-free Multi-agent Navigation with LiDAR.”
- 2024.05 Presenting our work at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan. My first oral presentation in my academic career 🎉
- 2024.02 One paper is accepted by ICRA 2024.
- 2023.08 One paper is accepted by CAC 2023.
- 2023.06 One paper is accepted by IROS 2023.
- 2023.06 I successfully defended my thesis and obtained my Master of Engineering degree from UCAS 🎉🎉
- 2022.11 Honored to receive the China National Scholarship!!! 🎉🎉
Research
Full publication list on Google Scholar.
Robot Person Following
A Shopping Service Robot Framework with Visual-WEM Tracking and Intersection-Aware Following
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL)
2026 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
Adap-RPF: Adaptive Trajectory Sampling for Robot Person Following in Dynamic Crowded Environments
2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Follow-Bench: A Unified Motion Planning Benchmark for Socially-Aware Robot Person Following
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE)
A Dual Closed-Loop Control Strategy for Human-Following Robots Respecting Social Space
2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
MPC-Based Human-Accompanying Control Strategy for Improving the Motion Coordination Between the Target Person and the Robot
2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Navigation
TARIC: Memory-Augmented Traversability-Aware Outdoor VLN under Interrupted Semantic Cues
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL)
EZREAL: Enhancing Zero-Shot Outdoor Robot Navigation toward Distant Targets under Varying Visibility
2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
LSTP-Nav: Lightweight Spatiotemporal Policy for Map-free Multi-agent Navigation with LiDAR
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE)
Honors & Awards
- 2024.08 Best Prototype Award in the Technology Category at the 2024 International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology (i-CREATe 2024).
- 2023.08 Best Conference Paper Finalist at the Eighth International Conference on Cognitive Systems and Information Processing (ICCSIP 2023).
- 2022.12 Future Talent Support Program of the Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- 2022.11 National Scholarship.
- 2022.11 Third Prize in the Artificial Intelligence Category at the First Staff Skills Competition of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- 2021.09 Lu Jiaxi Outstanding Freshmen Scholarship.
- 2021.08 First Prize in the 2021 Outstanding University Student Entrepreneurial Teams Selection for Beijing Universities.
- 2020.11 First Prize at the 9th University Science and Technology Achievements Exhibition and Promotion Conference.
- 2020.09 Grand Prize in the Intelligent Robotics Competition of the 2020 Digital China Innovation Contest.
- 2020.07 Outstanding Graduates of Huaqiao University Class of 2020.
- 2018.11 National Second Prize of 2018 China University Student Mathematical Modelling Competition.
- 2017~2019 First-class Undergraduate Academic Scholarship at Huaqiao University.
Academic Service
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Journal Reviewer:
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2025 ~ Present
- IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), 2025 ~ Present
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), 2026 ~ Present
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Conference Reviewer:
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024 ~ Present
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023 ~ Present
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2025 ~ Present
- IEEE International Conference on Information Automation (ICIA), 2025 ~ Present
- International Conference on Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics (ICBIR), 2025 ~ Present
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Conference Organization & Volunteering:
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2026
- IEEE International Conference on Information Automation (ICIA), 2026
- International Conference on Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics (ICBIR), 2026
Education
- 2025.08 - 2029.6 (expected) Ph.D. in Control Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen, China).
- 2020.09 - 2023.06 M.Eng. in Control Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China) 2021.08 – 2023.06 · Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, CAS (Quanzhou, China)
- 2016.09 - 2020.06 B.Eng. in Automation, Huaqiao University (Xiamen, China)
Experience
- 2025.04 - 2025.08 Research and Teaching Assistant, Southern University of Science and Technology
- 2023.07 - 2025.03 Research Assistant, Quanzhou Institute of Equipment Manufacturing, CAS
- 2019.10 - 2020.08 Intern, Quanzhou Institute of Equipment Manufacturing, CAS