CV

Education

• Ph.D Candidate in Robotics, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London, UK, 2020-now
• M.S. in Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK, 2019-2020
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA, 2014-2018

Work experience

• Graduate Teaching Assistant at Imperial College London
  • (Gizmo: Phyiscal Computing Module), Spring Term 2021, Autumn Term 2021, Spring Term 2022 and Autumn Term 2023
  • (Robotics Module), Autumn Term 2023
• Undergraduate Researcher
  • Robotics and Mechatronics Lab at Virginia Tech from Apr 2017 to Dec 2018.

Skills

• Programming Skills
  • Proficient in Java, Python, C++ and Matlab
• Software
  • ADAMS view, ABAQUS Finite Element Analysis
  • Robot Operating System(ROS), Gazebo
  • Solidworks
  • Unity and Unreal Engine for Simulation

Publications

Handbook of Soft Robotics

Handbook of Soft Robotics: Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Jamie Paik, Barbara Mazzolai, Cecilia Laschi, Manu Srivastava, Ian Walker, Shinichi Hirai, Christian Duriez, Isuru Godage, Hunter Gilbert, Angus Clark;Alex Ranne;Xinran Wang; Nicolas Rojas, Hadi Sadati, Ali Starbanov

Cossrat Rod Modeling and Validation for a Soft Continuum Robot with Self-Controllable Variable Curvature

Xinran Wang and Nicolas Rojas. “ Cossrat Rod Modeling and Validation for a Soft Continuum Robot with Self-Controllable Variable Curvature”, 7th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, Submitted in November 2023.

A Soft Continuum Robot with Self-Controllable Variable Curvature

Xinran Wang, Lu Qiujie, Dongmyoung Lee, Zhongxue Gan, and Nicolas Rojas. “A Soft Continuum Robot with Self-Controllable Variable Curvature.” IEEE Robotic and Automation Letter, Accepted in January 2024.

A Data-Efficient Model-Based Learning Framework for the Closed-Loop Control of Continuum Robots

Xinran, Wang, and Nicolas Rojas. "A Data-Efficient Model-Based Learning Framework for the Closed-Loop Control of Continuum Robots." In 2022 IEEE 5th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), pp. 247-254. IEEE, 2022

Design and analysis of a variable inertia spatial robotic tail for dynamic stabilization

Xinran Wang, Hailin Ren, Anil Kumar, and Pinhas Ben-Tzvi. "Design and analysis of a variable inertia spatial robotic tail for dynamic stabilization." Biomimetics 5, no. 4 (2020): 55.

Parallel deep learning ensembles for human pose estimation

Ren, Hailin, Anil Kumar, Xinran Wang, and Pinhas Ben-Tzvi. “Parallel deep learning ensembles for human pose estimation”. In Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, vol. 51890, p. V001T07A005. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018.