IU SMART Lab Team

Ruiqi Wang

Personal Webpage

Ruiqi became a SMART Lab alumni in August 2026.

Education:

Ph.D.	Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2026 (Computer and Information Technology) Dissertation: Adaptive Human-Robot Teaming and Interaction: Embracing Heterogeneity, Operational Dynamics, and Personalized Preferences
B.E.	Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China, 2020, Robotics Engineering Thesis: "Scene Recognition of Mobile Robot in Typical Home Environment"

Current Research:

My research interests fall into the area of human-robot interaction, human-in-the-loop robot learning and multi-agent system, with focus on applications to service and assistive robots in the real world.

Publications (See his Personal Webpage for up-to-date publications):

Ruiqi Wang, Dezhong Zhao, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Initial Task Allocation for Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teams with Attention-based Deep Reinforcement Learning", 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023), Detroit, USA, October 1-5, 2023. (PDF, Video)
Weizheng Wang, Ruiqi Wang, Le Mao, and Byung-Cheol Min, "NaviSTAR: Socially Aware Robot Navigation with Hybrid Spatio-Temporal Graph Transformer and Active Learning", 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023), Detroit, USA, October 1-5, 2023. (PDF, Video, GitHub)
Ruiqi Wang, Weizheng Wang and Byung-Cheol Min, "Feedback-efficient Active Preference Learning for Socially Aware Robot Navigation", 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022), Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022. (PDF, Video, GitHub)

Awards

2022, Purdue Daniel and Martina Lewis Scholarship, Purdue University.
2020, Excellent Undergraduate Thesis of Beijing.
2019, 2nd Place, The IJCAI-2019 Eldercare Robot Challenge.
2019, Champion, ‘Searching for Missing Object’, The IJCAI-2019 Eldercare Robot Challenge.
2019, 3rd Prize, RoboCup2019 China Open @Home.

Contact:

wang5357 at purdue dot edu