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Sibo Tian received the B.S. degree in flight vehicle design & engineering from Dalian University of Technology, China, in 2019, and the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA, in 2021. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. His research interests include prediction, planning, learning and control with applications to human-robot collaboration.

Harsh Modi is from the town of Mehsana in Gujarat, India. He completed his bachelor’s from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar before working full-time in the automobile industry at Tata Motors Ltd. Pune, India. He also has a master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His research work and interests include robust control system design and path planning for mobile robotic systems such as UAVs. He is also interested in the design and manufacturing of mechatronics systems. His hobbies include biking, hiking, and traveling.

Davood earned his BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, in 2016 and 2019, respectively. He is currently working on developing algorithms for robot motion planning and human motion prediction for collaborative human-robot interactions. His research interests include: robot task/motion planning, human motion prediction, and micro/nanomanipulation.

Chang Liu received the B.S. degree in Energy and Power from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2018, and the M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University at Buffalo, SUNY, US, in 2021. After graduation, he worked at HeyGears Inc., a 3D printer company, as a senior technical support engineer. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research interests include control system design, motion prediction, and planning, as well as utilizing deep learning and data science tools with applications to human-robot collaboration. His hobbies include traveling, photographing, and driving.

In 2021, he received a master of engineering in mechanical design and theory at Zhejiang University, China. After that, he started his 2.5-year research assistantship at Zhejiang University Robotics Institute, China, and mainly focused on integrating multiple mathematical theories and implementing them in robotic automation and intelligence. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. His interests include convex optimization, machine learning, robotic motion planning, and collision avoidance.

Jiurun Song received his B.S. degree in Engineering Mechanics and M.S. degree in Mechanics from Dalian University of Technology, China, in 2021 and 2024, respectively. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. His research interests include human motion prediction, motion planning and learning-based control of robot manipulators.

Bihao Zhang received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China in 2024. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research interests include mechanical & control systems design. His enjoys being in sunlight and watching plants and critters.

I am a Ph.D. student working in robotics. My earlier work centered on perception and SLAM for autonomous navigation. My current active research is on robot learning to solve and improve the deployability, controllability, and adaptability of robotics systems like manipulators in real-world applications. I graduated from Sichuan University with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and University of Pennsylvania with a master’s degree in robotics.