News
Education
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Ph.D (Computer Science, 2019) Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Advisor:
Robin R. Murphy
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Master of Science (Mechanical Engineering, 2015) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Advisor: William (Red) L. Whittaker
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Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics Engineering, Dual-Degree, 2013) Tongji University, Shanghai, P.R. China FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Aachen, NRW, Germany
Academia
Industry
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Roboticist @ X, The Moonshot Factory, Mountain View, CA (06/2021-current)
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Research Intern @ Facebook Reality Labs, Sausalito, CA (05/2018-08/2018)
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Research Intern @ Microsoft Research Labs, Redmond, WA (05/2017-08/2017)
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Praktikant & Bachelor Thesis Author @ PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH & Co. KG, Blomberg, Germany (02/2013-06/2013)
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Advanced Intern @ DELPHI China Technical Center, Shanghai, China (06/2012-08/2012)
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Assistant Engineer @ Siemens Industrial Automation Ltd., Shanghai, China (05/2011-09/2011)
Press
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Clearpath Robotics, Jackal UGV Shines in ICRA 2022 Autonomous Navigation Challenge, 06/07/2022
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IEEE Spectrum, How the US Army is Turning Robots into Team Players, 09/23/2021
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US Army, Soldiers could teach future robots how to outperform humans, 08/12/2020
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Robotics Business Review, How Robots and Drones are Changing Rescue Operations, 11/27/2019
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Tech Briefs, Drones and AI Improve 'EMILY' Lifesaver Robot for Large-Scale Water Rescues, 06/30/2018
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NSF Science Nation, Water rescue robot EMILY gets some help from the sky, 02/26/2018
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WIRED, Marsupial Robots Ain't Cuddly, But They Are Totally Brilliant, 04/08/2017
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KBTX, Search and rescue workers, drones, robots, gather in Grimes County for training, 01/28/2017 [Newsclip]
Publications
Preprint
Journal
Conference
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- Robin Murphy, Jan Dufek, Traci Sarmiento, Grant Wilde, Xuesu Xiao, Richard Smith, Sam Allred, Adam Wright, Jeff Braun, Lachlan Mullen, Justin Adams, and Jess Gingrich. Two Case Studies and Gaps Analysis of Flood Assessment for Emergency Management with Small Unmanned Aerial Systems. 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR). [PDF] [Press] [Dataset]
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- Xuesu Xiao, Ellen Cappo, Weikun Zhen, Jin Dai, Ke Sun, Chaohui Gong, Matthew J. Travers, and Howie Choset. Locomotive Reduction for Snake Robots. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). [PDF] [Video]
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Workshop / Extended Abstract / Technical Report
Teaching
George Mason University
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Instructor, CS580 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2022
The University of Texas at Austin
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Co-Instructor, CS309 Autonomous Intelligent Robotics (FRI II), Fall 2020
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Co-Instructor, CS309 Autonomous Intelligent Robotics (FRI I), Spring 2020
Texas A&M University
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Teaching Assistant, CSCE 121 Introduction to Program Design and Concepts, Spring 2016
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Teaching Assistant, CSCE 121 Introduction to Program Design and Concepts, Fall 2015
Carnegie Mellon University
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Teaching Assistant, Robotics 778 Mechatronic Design, Spring 2015
Service
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Chair: IEEE ICRA 2022 Competition The Benchmark Autonomous Robot Navigation (BARN) Challenge, AAAI Spring Symposium Series 2021 Machine Learning for Mobile Robot Navigation in the Wild, IEEE ICRA 2021 Workshop Machine Learning for
Motion Planning
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Organizing Committee: ACM/IEEE HRI 2021 Workshop Exploring Applications for Autonomous Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interactions, ACM/IEEE HRI 2021 Workshop Exploring Applications for Autonomous Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interactions
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Associate Editor: ICRA, IROS, SSRR
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Senior Program Committee: IJCAI
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Program Committee: AAAI, AAMAS, MLPC@ICRA20
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Reviewer Board: MDPI Applied Sciences, MDPI Sensors
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Journal Reviewer: IEEE RA-L, IEEE RAM, IEEE T-ASE, IEEE TMC, IEEE Access, Elsevier RAS, AI Access Foundation JAIR, MDPI JMSE, Springer Machine Learning, SAGE MAC, SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences
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Conference Reviewer: RSS, ICRA, IROS, SSRR, HRI, MRS, ECMR, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS
