Activities

Conference TPC / Workshop Organizers

[TPC3] TPC member of The 41th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-27), February 16 to 23, 2027, in Montréal, Canada.

[TPC2] TPC member of Track 6: Mobile and Wireless Networks in the 2026 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), August 7 to 9, 2026, in Wuhan, China.

Track Chairs: Wei Xu, Southeast University, China; George Karagiannidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Cunhua Pan, Southeast University, China; Ang Li, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

[TPC1] TPC member of The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26), January 20 to 27, 2026, in Singapore.

[W1] Organizer of IEEE IROS 2025 workshop on “Advanced Haptic Sensors and Devices for Healthcare Robots,” October 19 to 25, 2025, in Hangzhou, China.

Invited Speakers: Dr. Michael C. Welle, Prof. Kaichen Xu, Prof. Yongjae Yoo, Prof. Xinqin Liao, Prof. Yunzhu Li, Dr. Jian Li, and Prof. Jixiao Liu.
Organizers: Dr. Honghao Lyu, Prof. Amy Kyungwon Han, Prof. Fernando Bello, Dr. Gaoyang Pang(USyd), Prof. Yong-Lae Park, and A/Prof. Geng Yang.

Invited Talk / Keynote Presentation

[K2] Dr. Gaoyang Pang(USyd), Wireless Embodied Intelligence for Defence Human–Machine Teaming, in Workshop on AI-Native Intelligent and Resilient Wireless Networking, Sydney, Australia, Jun. 2026.

Moderators: Dr. Manik Attygalle, Dr. Ismail Shakeel, Dr. Kagiso Magowe, Dr. Robert van Coppenhagen, Prof. Yonghui Li, and Prof. Branka Vucetic.

Workshop Attendees, Jun. 2026

[K1] Dr. Gaoyang Pang(USyd), Wireless Human-Machine Collaboration in Industry 5.0, in ASPIRE Science Tokyo Matching Workshop · Industry Session, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2026.

Moderators: Prof. Katsuki Fujisawa, Prof. Yonghui Li.

Research Supervision/Mentoring

[DS7] Mr. Yuchen Tian, Doctoral candidate, Aug. 2026-now, Embodied Intelligence for Human-centric Robotics, Supervisors: Prof. Branka Vucetic(Lead), Prof. Yonghui Li, and Dr. Gaoyang Pang.

[DS6] Mr. Haonan Zhou, Doctoral candidate, Oct. 2025-now, Embodied Intelligence for Human-centric Robotics, Supervisors: Prof. Yonghui Li (Lead), Prof. Branka Vucetic, and Dr. Gaoyang Pang.

[DS5] Mr. Sicheng Jiang, Doctoral candidate, Oct. 2025-now, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Integrated Sensing and Communication, Supervisors: Prof. Yonghui Li (Lead), Prof. Branka Vucetic, Dr. Haiyao Yu, Dr. Gaoyang Pang, and Dr. Litianyi Zhang.

[DS4] Ms. Zijiao Hu, Doctoral candidate, Oct. 2025-now, Computer Vision Assisted Communication Design for Vehicular Communication, Supervisors: Prof. Yonghui Li (Lead), Prof. Branka Vucetic, Dr. Haiyao Yu, Dr. Gaoyang Pang, and Dr. Litianyi Zhang.

[DS3] Mr. Yilun Wang, Doctoral candidate, Aug. 2026-now, Diffusion models for Radio Map Generation, Supervisors: Prof. Yonghui Li (Lead), Prof. Branka Vucetic, Dr. Haiyao Yu, and Dr. Gaoyang Pang.

[DS2] Mr. Zixuan Xu, Doctoral candidate, Jan. 2025-now, Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models, Supervisors: Prof. Zihuai Lin (Lead), Dr. Ming Ding, Prof. Yonghui Li, Prof. Branka Vucetic, and Dr. Gaoyang Pang.

[DS1] Mr. Xinyu Chen, Doctoral candidate, Jan. 2025-now, Artificial Intelligence for Image Segmentation, Supervisors: Prof. Yonghui Li (Lead), A/Prof. Luping Zhou, and Dr. Gaoyang Pang.

[MS11] Mr. Tingke Zhao, Master’s student, Aug. 2026-now, ELEC5020 Capstone Project, Dynamic Whole-Body Dancing with Humanoid Robots, Supervisors: Dr. Gaoyang Pang (Lead) and Mr. Haonan Zhou.

[MS10] Mr. Jiajun Liu, Master’s student, Aug. 2026-now, ELEC5020 Capstone Project, Dynamic Whole-Body Dancing with Humanoid Robots, Supervisors: Dr. Gaoyang Pang (Lead) and Mr. Haonan Zhou.

[MS9] Mr. Ziheng Gong, Master’s student, Aug. 2026-now, ELEC5020 Capstone Project, Vision-Language-Based Semantic Human Identification and Autonomous Robot Following, Supervisors: Dr. Gaoyang Pang (Lead) and Mr. Haonan Zhou.

[MS8] Ms. Kailin Chen, Master’s student, Mar. 2026-now, ELEC5020 Capstone Project, Vision-Language Navigation for Qudraped Robots, Supervisors: A/Prof. Zihuai Lin (Lead), Mr. Haonan Zhou, and Dr. Gaoyang Pang. (Best Poster Award at USyd ECE Industry Expo and Research Showcase, Top One.)

[MS7] Mr. Chenxi Zhang, Master’s student, Mar. 2026-now, ELEC4712 Thesis Project, Visual Navigation for Embodied AI in Crowded Human-centric Environments, Supervisors: Dr. Gaoyang Pang (Lead) and Mr. Haonan Zhou.

[MS6] Ms. Ting Yu, Master’s student, Oct. 2025-May 2026, ELEC5020/21 Capstone Project, Autonomous Visual Localisation of Quadruped Robots Using Multiple Tags, Supervisors: Prof. Yonghui Li (Lead), Mr. Haonan Zhou, and Dr. Gaoyang Pang.

[MS5] Mr. Sirui Zhou, Master’s student, Oct. 2025-May 2026, ELEC5020/21 Capstone Project, Voice-based Control of a Robot Dog, Supervisors: Prof. Yonghui Li (Lead), Mr. Haonan Zhou, and Dr. Gaoyang Pang.

[MS4] Mr. Bingbing Cao, Master’s student, Oct. 2025-May 2026, ELEC5020/21 Capstone Project, Vision-based Human-Robot Interaction of Quadruped Robots, Supervisors: Prof. Yonghui Li (Lead), Mr. Haonan Zhou, and Dr. Gaoyang Pang.

Capstone Students, S1, 2026

[MS3] Mr. Jiaming Pu, Master’s student, Oct. 2025-May 2026, ELEC5020/21 Capstone Project, Semantics-based Voice Interaction of Dual-Arm Robots, Supervisors: Prof. Yonghui Li (Lead), Mr. Haonan Zhou, and Dr. Gaoyang Pang.

[MS2] Mr. Wenhao Wang, Master’s student, Mar. 2026-May 2026, ELEC5020/21 Capstone Project, Natural Language-Based Semantic Interaction for Autonomous Robot Navigation, Supervisors: Dr. Gaoyang Pang (Lead) and Mr. Haonan Zhou.

[MS1] Mr. Ming Ma, Master’s student, Jul. 2025-May 2026, ELEC4712 Thesis Project and Engineering Vacation Research Internship Program at USyd, ECE2025/24 Learning-Driven Semantic Communication for Future Wireless Systems, Supervisors: Prof. Yonghui Li (Lead), Prof. Branka Vucetic (Lead), Dr. Chentao Yue, and Dr. Gaoyang Pang.

[BS3] Mr. Yixiang Ma, Bachelor of Engineering Honours, Mar. 2026-now, ELEC5020 Capstone Project, Vision-Language Action Model for Long-Term Task Planning, Supervisors: Dr. Gaoyang Pang (Lead) and Mr. Haonan Zhou.

[BS2] Mr. Adam Laurent, Bachelor of Engineering Honours, Mar. 2026-now, ELEC4712 Thesis Project, Vision-Language Grounded Body Language Semantics for Human-Robot Communication, Supervisors: Dr. Gaoyang Pang (Lead) and Mr. Haonan Zhou.

[BS1] Mr. Keyu Chen, Bachelor of Engineering Honours, Mar. 2026-now, ELEC4712 Thesis Project, DRL-based Networked Control, Supervisors: Dr. Gaoyang Pang (Lead), Mr. Haonan Zhou, and Dr. Yuxing Zhong.

Verified Peer Reviews (Publons codes are available on ORCID)

Review activities of 400+ times for 50+ journals/conferences, including

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences;
ACS Nano;
Advanced Materials;
Advanced Science;
Advanced Functional Materials;
Advanced Materials Technologies;
Advanced Intelligent Systems;
Advanced Engineering Materials;
Advanced Intelligent Discovery;
Advanced Theory and Simulations;
Small;
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications;
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications;
IEEE Transactions on Communications;
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering;
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering;
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics;
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics;
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics;
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking;
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology;
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics;
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging;
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics;
IEEE Open Journal on the Communications Society;
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters;
IEEE Communications Letters;
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters;
IEEE Sensors Journal;
IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics;
IEEE Access;

The Innovation;
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing;
Journal of Manufacturing Systems;
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence;
Mechatronics;
ISA Transactions;
Measurement;
Sensors and Actuators: A. Physical;
International Journal of Mechanical Sciences;
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction;
International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications;
International Journal of Robotics and Automation;
Scientific Reports;
Sensors;
Electronics;
Technologies;
Franklin Open;
Biomedical Microdevices;
Digital Health;
JMIR Formative Research;
PeerJ Computer Science;
The Journal of Supercomputing;
Telecommunication Systems;
ROBOMECH Journal;
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine;
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering;
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence;
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference;
IEEE Global Communications Conference;
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots.

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