Ruiqi Wang
Hello!
I'm a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University, where I work in the SMART Lab with Professor B.C. Min.
My research goal is to build human-centered robotic intelligence: robots that understand, respond to, and align with the people they serve or work with.
Toward this, I develop efficient and scalable methods for robot learning from human feedback that elicit informative feedback at minimal human cost, distill it into rewards that faithfully capture human intent, and generalize the learned behavior across tasks, users, and environments.
My research also studies how robots can perceive and adapt to broader human signals in real time, including physiological state, cognitive workload, trust, and interaction dynamics, to sustain fluent, safe, and effective collaboration.
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News
- Sep 18 PRIMT accepted as Oral (Top 0.35%) at NeurIPS 2025!
- Jun 15 Two papers accepted at IROS 2025!
- Feb 10 Paper on Multimodal Audio-based Disease Prediction accepted at IEEE/ACM T-ASLP!
- Jan 27 Three papers (including one RA-L transfer) accepted at ICRA 2025!
- Jan 06 PrefCLM accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters!
- Dec 16 Arjun (mentored undergrad) won First Place at Purdue Fall Undergraduate Research Expo!
- Dec 13 Passed my Ph.D. dissertation proposal defense! 🎉
- Nov 26 Cognitive Load-based Affective Workload Allocation accepted at IEEE T-HMS!
- Jul 10 MOCAS Dataset accepted at IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing!
- May 02 Passed my Ph.D. preliminary exam!
- Feb 05 Attention-enhanced Hierarchical RL for Task Assignment accepted at IEEE RA-L!
- Jan 28 SAMARL accepted at ICRA 2024!
- Jan 17 Husformer accepted at IEEE T-CDS! [Code]
- Dec 28 Conducted robotics seminar at West Lafayette Jr./Sr. High School.
- Jun 21 Two papers accepted at IROS 2023: ITA-AtRL and NaviSTAR!
- May 27 Conducted five-day robotics outreach program for K-12 students.
- Dec 18 Held outreach event at Macau Anglican College.
- Jun 30 Feedback-efficient Active Preference Learning accepted at IROS 2022!