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Jiuguang Wang
Special Projects Group, Apple Inc
1 Infinite Loop, MS 997-2SG, Cupertino, California, 95014, USA
+1 678-522-6363 • jw@robo.guru • http://www.robo.guru
Research Interests
Motion planning, control theory, and machine learning as applied to autonomous systems, particularly for humanoid robots in challenging dynamic tasks such as whole-body manipulation and bipedal locomotion
Education
PhD in Robotics
August 2015
Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
- Dissertation: Numerical Nonlinear Robust Control with Applications to Humanoid Robots
- Thesis committee: Christopher G. Atkeson (Chair, CMU Robotics), Koushil Sreenath (CMU MechE), Bruno Sinopoli (CMU ECE), and Stefan Schaal (University of Southern California ECE)
Master of Science in Robotics
August 2014
Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
May 2010
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Mechanical Engineering, Atlanta, GA
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
May 2009
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Atlanta, GA
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
May 2008
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Computer Science, Atlanta, GA
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
May 2008
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Atlanta, GA
Work Experience
Senior Research Scientist August 2015 - PresentSpecial Projects Group, Apple Inc
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Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
- Developed algorithms for nonlinear trajectory optimization and receding-horizon control under uncertainty
- Implemented motion planning and control for bipedal humanoid robots to perform challenging dynamic tasks
- Contributed to the DARPA Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) and DARPA Robotics Challenge (2015)
- Awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2010-2013)
- Awarded Best Paper in Session - American Control Conference (2012), Montréal, Canada
Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
- 16-711: Kinematics, Dynamic Systems, and Control, part of the core curriculum in the Robotics PhD program
- Advised 49 students on assignments and final term project during weekly office hours
- End of term evaluation indicated "excellent" knowledge of course material and "thorough and fair" grading
Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Investigated the full-body motion planning and control of wheeled humanoids robots to achieve dynamic gaits
- Designed and constructed a wheeled, dual arm humanoid robot under a budget of US$600,000
- Contributed to the development of a cross-platform, open-source, simulator for articulated rigid body systems
- Best Paper Award Finalist: IEEE Int. Conf. on Humanoid Robots (2009) and SAIC Student Paper Competition (2009)
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Developed a robotic sensor network to enable a NASA study on the effects of warming on the Antarctic ice shelves
- Designed decentralized, graph-theoretic algorithms for multi-robot task assignment and formation assembly
- Implemented decentralized control laws on a multi-robot system based on a prototype iRobot mobile platform
- Awarded the President’s Undergraduate Research Award (2007)
School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Developed a visual odometry system for Georgia Tech’s entry to the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge (semi-finalist)
- Designed and constructed a wheeled search and rescue robot based on the Robotix Dynamixel servos
- Participated in the 2007 RoboCup Rescue with Heavy Metal, a 300lb wheeled robot (largest in the competition)
- Served on the Student Advisory Board for Undergraduate Research
Other Experience
Freelance Photographer 2004 - Present- Specialized in landscape photography with an award-winning series on historical monuments in Europe
- Awarded 7th place in the largest photography competition in history (353,768 entries, Guinness World Records)
- Exhibited in the Netherlands, Russia, Panama, Britain, Sweden, Spain, Philippines, Hong Kong, and Germany
- Contributed content for Wikipedia in the areas of science and engineering, particularly WikiProject Robotics
- Contributed 129 original technical articles with an edit count of 5,651 (as of 2012)
- 15 original articles were featured on the Wikipedia homepage under the “Did you know…” with high readership
- Served as reviewer for journals: IEEE-TEC, IEEE-TRO, IEEE-RAM, IJRR, Autonomous Robots, and Robotica
- Served as reviewer for conferences: ICRA, IROS, ICHR, ACC, CDC, MSC, ICML, NIPS, AAAI, IJCAI
- Served as student volunteer for RSS (2007) and webmaster for HSCC (2008)
- Member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and IEEE Controls Systems Society
Certification and Licensure
Bloomberg Certification in Equity, Fixed Income, Commodity, and FX
March 2014
Bloomberg, L.P.
Amateur Radio License (Element 3 – General Class, FRN #0018468694, KJ4JEQ)
January 2009
Federal Communications Commission
ABET Engineer-In-Training (EIT) Certification in Electrical Engineering (License: EIT023572)
April 2008
Georgia State Board of Registration for Engineer & Land Surveyor
Skills
- Languages: Chinese (native), English (native)
- Development: C, C++, Python, MATLAB, and ROS
- Version control and project management systems: Git, Jira / Confluence
- Robotics frameworks: ROS, Player/Stage/Gazebo, Cartographer, MoveIt!, OpenCV, and OMPL
- Optimization tools: Gurobi, IPOPT, JuliaOpt, KNITRO, NPSOL, Google OR-Tools, and SNOPT
- Multi-body dynamics frameworks: Bullet, CarMaker, CarSim, Chrono, DART, MuJoCo, ODE
- Machine learning frameworks: TensorFlow and PyTorch
Personal
- Citizenship: People’s Republic of China
- U.S. Permanent Resident (since 2005), authorized to work in the U.S. without restrictions