Zhe Huang - Biography

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2024)

• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (2019)

• B.Eng. in Energy and Power Engineering, Honors Engineering Program, Xi’an Jiaotong University (2017)

Experiences

• Research Scientist (2024 - Present)

  • Meta

• Graduate Research Assistant (2019 – 2024)

  • Human-Centered Autonomy Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Advisor: Prof. Katherine Driggs-Campbell

• Advanced Robotics Research Co-op (Fall 2022)

  • Amazon Robotics

• PhD Intern (Summer 2022)

  • Nuro

• Digital Technology Intern (Spring 2019)

  • Big Data and IoT Team, Schlumberger Software Technology & Innovation Center

• Graduate Research Assistant (2018)

  • Stanford Robotics Lab, Stanford University

  • Advisor: Prof. Oussama Khatib

• Graduate Research Assistant (Fall 2017)

  • Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine Lab, Stanford University

  • Advisor: Prof. Allison Okamura

Teaching

• CS223A: Introduction to Robotics, Stanford University, Winter 2019

• ECE598HRI: Human Robot Interaction, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2022, Fall 2023

Services

• Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (T-IV) 2022, 2024

  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS) 2023, 2024

  • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE) 2023, 2024

  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (VTM) 2022

  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2021, 2023, 2024

  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL) 2021

  • Frontiers in Neuroscience 2024

• Conference Reviewer

  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024, 2025

  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2023, 2024

  • IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2023, 2024

  • Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2022, 2024

  • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2021, 2022

  • IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) 2022

  • IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) 2020

Awards and Honors

• [2024] Spotlight Presentation on the 3rd Workshop on Computer Vision in the Wild at CVPR

• [2022] Spotlight Presentation on Workshop on Collaborative Robots and the Work of the Future at ICRA

• [2022] Best Robotics Demo in Coordinated Science Laboratory Student Conference

• [2017] Chiang Chen Overseas Fellowship as one of ten recipients in China awarded USD 50,000

• [2017] Delivered the commencement speech at graduation ceremony of Xi'an Jiaotong University, as the representative of over 3000 Bachelor’s degree recipients

• [2014-2016] Outstanding Student awarded by Xi'an Jiaotong University

• [2015-2016] Pengkang Scholarship as top 2% student awarded by Xi'an Jiaotong University

• [2014] China National Scholarship as top 1% student awarded by Ministry of Education

• [2014] National First Prize in China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling as top 1%