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| Dec 15, 2025 | 🎤 Invited keynote presentation at the Dalian University of Technology workshop organized by Prof. Zhongyang Fei and Prof. Xu Fang. I was invited as the opening speaker on December 15, 2025 (2:00–2:30 PM GMT+8), sharing recent research in Robots Living in Human Spaces with an audience of robotics and intelligent systems researchers. The event featured keynote talks from scholars across China, the UK and Canada, covering advances in robotics, sensing, and autonomous systems. |
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| Dec 10, 2025 | 🎤 Online invited talk for the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Group at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), hosted by Prof. Liangming Chen. I was invited to give a talk this afternoon on December 10, 2025, sharing research perspectives in Robots Living in Human Spaces for next-generation autonomous systems. |
| Nov 28, 2025 | 🎤 Online invited lecture for the Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Industrial Big Data and Robotic Intelligent Systems (Hangzhou, China). I was invited to give a talk on November 28, 2025, 3:00 PM (GMT+8), sharing expert opinions in Robots Among Humans: From State Estimation to Interaction for next-generation autonomous systems. |
| Nov 25, 2025 | 🎤 Invited talk at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University — “Spatial Intelligence for Human–Robot Interaction: From SLAM to Cooperation and Contention.” Discussed advances in spatial intelligence, SLAM, and embodied interaction, highlighting recent progress in human–robot cooperation and autonomous systems research. |
| Nov 20, 2025 | 🎤 Invited talk at the SJTU Paris Elite Institute of Technology (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) during the China–France International Young Scholars Forum 2025. Delivered the talk “Spatial Intelligence for Human–Robot Interaction: From SLAM to Cooperation and Contention,” sharing insights on embodied and spatial intelligence for robust human–robot interaction across cooperative and adversarial contexts. |
| Nov 11, 2025 | 📝 I have been appointed as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE). I will be handling submissions in robotics, autonomous and multi-robot systems, SLAM/localization, and human-centered automation / HRI. Looking forward to serving the community and supporting high-quality work in these areas. |
| Nov 10, 2025 | 🎉 Our paper “SplatSSC: Decoupled Depth-Guided Gaussian Splatting for Semantic Scene Completion” has been accepted to AAAI 2026. This work targets large-scale 3D scene completion from sparse/range views, and shows how separating depth guidance from semantic splatting improves robustness and efficiency. Congrats to all co-authors! 👏 |
| Nov 08, 2025 | 🎤 Invited talk at the International Conference on Geospatial Information Science: Education, Innovation and Applications (GIS-EIA 2025) hosted by Wuhan University. Delivered the talk “Spatial Intelligence for Human–Robot Interaction: From SLAM to Cooperation and Contention,” sharing perspectives on embodied and spatial intelligence for next-generation autonomous systems. |
| Oct 31, 2025 | 🎤 Invited talk at the School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) — “Spatial Intelligence for Human–Robot Interaction: From SLAM to Cooperation and Contention.” Discussed embodied and spatial intelligence for robust human–robot interaction, covering cooperative and adversarial scenarios from crowd-aware navigation to anti-UAV autonomy. |
| Oct 27, 2025 | 🏅 Honored with the Best Editorial Award from WSPC Unmanned Systems for outstanding contributions to journal development and community service. Grateful to the editorial board and robotics community for the continued support and collaboration. |
| Aug 30, 2025 | 🎤 Invited talk at the Hangzhou International Innovation Institute of Beihang University — “Spatial Intelligence for Human–Robot Interaction: From SLAM to Cooperation and Contention.” Shared system-level insights connecting SLAM, perception, and multi-modal human–robot interaction across cooperative and adversarial contexts. |
| Jun 16, 2025 | 🎉 Eight papers and one workshop accepted to IROS 2025, including our CARIC 2025 competition on UAV swarm inspection! 🔗 Join the challenge: https://ntu-aris.github.io/caric |
| Jun 13, 2025 | 🎉 One paper has been accepted by CVPR 2025. Thanks to my collaborators for the great teamwork. 🏅 I have also been recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for CVPR 2025. Thanks to the CVPR community and area chairs for the recognition. |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Two papers are accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO) |
| Jan 29, 2025 | Seven papers are accepted by ICRA 2025 |
| Dec 24, 2024 | Two papers accepted by ICASSP 2025 |
| Nov 25, 2024 | One paper “Robust Loop Closure by Textual Cues” is accepted by RAL |
| Oct 31, 2024 | We release the GPTR, a continuous-time trajectory representation based on gaussian process for motion estimation. Check out the paper and the source code! |
| Oct 17, 2024 | I`m invited to serve as IROS chair of three sessions. |
| Oct 13, 2024 | Organized and chair of IROS 2024 Workshop on Multi-Robot Perception and Navigation Challenges in Logistics and Inspection Tasks. Here are the winning teams Leaderboard. Congratulations. |
| Sep 22, 2024 | One paper accepted by TCST |
| Jun 29, 2024 | Four papers are accepted by IROS 2024 |
| Jun 13, 2024 | One LIO paper “MM-LINS” is accepted by TIV |
| May 31, 2024 | Track 5 of the 7th UG2+ Workshop (in conjunction with CVPR 2024) has been completed. Results are available Here! Congratulations to all the winners! |
| Apr 05, 2024 | One paper accepted by CVPR 2024 |
| Jan 29, 2024 | Four papers are accepted by ICRA 2024 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | One paper accepted by NeurIPS 2023 |
| Jun 22, 2023 | Three papers are accepted by IROS 2023 |
| Jan 17, 2023 | Two papers are accepted by ICRA 2023 |