Zhe Huang - Biography

Education

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

• 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 Assistant (2019.09 – Present)

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

  • Advisor: Prof. Katherine Driggs-Campbell

  • Topics: Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction, and Collaborative Manufacturing

• Advanced Robotics Research Co-op (2022.08 – 2022.12)

  • Amazon Robotics

  • Topics: Grasp Learning

• PhD Intern (2022.05 – 2022.08)

  • Nuro

  • Topics: Autonomous Driving

• Digital Technology Intern (2019.04 – 2019.06)

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

  • Advisor: Bernard Van Haecke, Crispin Chatar

  • Topics: Voice Interface for Drilling Systems on Cloud, and Drilling Pattern Recognition on Edge Device

• Research Assistant (2018.04-2018.09)

  • Stanford Robotics Lab, Stanford University

  • Advisor: Prof. Oussama Khatib

  • Topics: Mechanical Design and Haptic Simulation of a Gold-mining Robot

• Research Assistant (2017.09-2017.12)

  • Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine Lab, Stanford University

  • Advisor: Prof. Allison Okamura

  • Topics: Mechanical Design of Soft Robot-driven Reconfigurable Antenna

Teaching

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

• ECE598HRI: Human Robot Interaction, University of Illinois at 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

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

  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (VTM) 2022

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

  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL) 2021

  • Frontiers in Neuroscience 2024

• Conference Reviewer

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

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

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

  • 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

• [2022.02] Best Robotics Demo in Coordinated Science Laboratory Student Conference

• [2017.08] Chiang Chen Overseas Fellowship as one of ten recipients in China awarded USD 50,000

• [2017.06] 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

• [2014.11] China National Scholarship as top 1% student awarded by Ministry of Education

• [2014.10] National First Prize in China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling as top 1%