[November] Attended U.S. Robotics Roadmap Workshop at UMass Lowell.

[August 2019] Gave a short-talk at IRIM Fall Research Symposium on safe robotic planning and decision.

[July 2019] Co-organized ACC workshop on Dynamic Legged Robotics.

[June 2019] Co-organized RSS workshop on Robust Task and Motion Planning.

[May 2019] One co-authored paper on switched systems is accepted by IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica.

[May 2019] Gave a seminar talk at The Center for Intelligent Machines, McGill University.

[April 2019] Our book chapter on impedance control of series elastic actuation is accepted.

[February 2019] I gave a seminar talk at Georgia Tech Decision and Control Laboratory.

[January 2019] A co-authored paper on robust bipedal locomotion control is accepted on Robotica [link].

[January 2019] I moved to The Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech as an assistant professor. Stay tuned for more information.

[November 2018] I gave seminar talks at Zhejiang University (Sunday, Nov. 18th), and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Monday, Nov. 19th).

[November 2018] I gave seminar talks at The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University, The School of Automation at Beijing Institute of Technology, The School of Mechanics and Engineering Science at Peking University, The Department of Automation at Tsinghua University, and ArtRobot Inc.

[November 2018] One paper on reactive task and motion planning of dynamic locomotion is submitted to International Journal of Robotics Research. Here is the preprint.

[November 2018] I gave a seminar talk in the workshop on towards dynamic and robust locomotion for legged robots in complex environments at the Humanoids conference.

[November 2018] I gave a seminar talk at Institute of Automation at Chinese Academy of Sciences.

[September 2018] I gave an invited talk at the workshop on enhancing energetic performance for mobile and wearable robotic systems, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Atlanta.

[July 2018] Served as an Associate Editor of Humanoids, 2018.

[July 2018] One co-authored paper on robust locomotion control is submitted to Robotica.

[June 2018] Interviewed by Hong Kong Phoenix TV Channel on cutting-edge robotics research.

[January-April 2018] I gave invited seminar talks on Planning, Control, and Decision-making of Agile Humanoid Robots in Complex Environments at the following universities:

College of Engineering and Applied Science, Lehigh University,

Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,

School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,

Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology,

School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington,

Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut.

[March 2018] The co-authored work on variable stiffness control of biped locomotion is accepted in Intelligent Service Robotics Journal.

[February 2018] Appointed as an Associate Editor of IROS, 2018.

[October 2017] Our Impedance Control and Performance Measure of Series Elastic Actuators is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. Here are links for published version, video, and code.

[July 2017] Our robust phase-space planning framework for rough terrain locomotion is accepted by IJRR! Here are related links paper, video, ArXiv, and code.

[June 2017] Appointed as an Associate Editor of IEEE-RAS Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2017.

[May 2017] My co-authored TRO work on Whole-Body Operational Space Control is awarded as Best Whole-Body Control Paper and Video Finalist.

[March 2017] Our work on visually guided human locomotion over complex terrain and phase-space planning is presented at ARSO. Jonathan gave an excellent talk!

[December 2016] Our ARSO paper is accepted! It is teamwork!

[November 2016] Presented two workshop talks at Humanoid conference 2016. Human Performance and Robotics and Towards Humanoid Robots OS.

[November 2016] I joined Harvard Agile Robotics Laboratory as a postdoc with Prof. Scott Kuindersma.

[October 2016] Invited to serve as an Associate Editor of the 2017 IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO 2017).

[September 2016] Invited for a talk at the Robotics Seminar, UT Austin.

[September 2016] Our paper on time-delayed Whole-Body Operational Space Control is accepted to Humanoid 2016.

[September 2016] I am invited to serve as an ICT Chair of IROS 2018.

[August 2016] Defensed my Ph.D. The dissertation pdf is here if you are interested.

[July 2016] Our CDC paper on high-level locomotion planner synthesis is accepted.

[June 2016] We gave a spotlight talk on agile locomotion at RSS. Check out our presentation slide here.

[June 2016] We presented our high-level planner synthesis work at RSS workshop on task and motion planning.

[June 2016] We presented two dynamic walking papers in Michigan! An oral presentation about high-level task planning.

[May 2016] Completed the UT Robotics Portfolio Program!

[May 2016] Our RSS paper on phase-space motion planning is accepted! The acceptance rate this year is 20.6%.

[May 2016] I presented our planning work on the ICRA workshop on Legged Robot Falling.

[February 2016] Appointed as the Co-Chair of IEEE Robotics and Automaton Society (RAS) Student Activities Committee.

[October 2015] Submitted our phase space planning work to IJRR. Here is the arXiv and published version.

[September 2015] Passed my Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal and advanced to a Ph.D. candidate.

[May 2015] Our paper about distributed control architecture with feedback latencies is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. Here is the paper.

[January 2015] Appointed as a Review Editor for Frontiers in Robotics and AI! The specialized area is Humanoid Robotics.

[October 2014] Co-organized a workshop on Cognition, perception and postural control for humanoids at IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2014.