Dr. Jizhong Xiao joined the Electrical Engineering Department of the City College of New York (CCNY/CUNY City College) in 2002 and started the robotics research program as the founding director of CCNY Robotics Lab (website: https://ccny-ros-pkg.github.io/) and the Center for Perceptual Robotics, Intelligent Sensors and Machines (PRISM Center). Dr. Xiao is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the CUNY City College, and Professor of Computer Science at the CUNY Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). He served as the advisor of the PhD program in Electrical Engineering at CUNY City College (2011~2019). His research has been funded by grants from U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Army Research Office (ARO), Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and industry. Dr. Xiao has published more than 200 research articles in peer reviewed journal and conferences.

Dr. Xiao is a recipient of NSF CAREER award in 2007, the CCNY Outstanding Mentoring Award in 2011, and Dean’s Award for Excellence for the overall excellence in research, teaching and service at CCNY in 2019. He received the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 2013~2015. Dr. Xiao has served the robotics community in various roles of many conferences and served as guest editor and reviewers for major robotics journals and conferences and proposal evaluation panelist for NSF and ARO. He is a senior member of IEEE.

Website: https://ccny-ros-pkg.github.io/prof/jxiao.html

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, 2002.

M.Eng., Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 1999.

B.S. and M.S., East China Institute of Technology, Nanjing, P. R. China, 1990, and 1993.  

Linear Systems I (EE205)

Senior Design I & II (EE598.66, 598.67, Robotics and Embedded Systems Track)

Introduction to Robotics (I5501)

Advanced Mobile Robots (I7501)

Linear Systems I (EE205)

Professor Xiao's research interests include robotics and control, cyber-physical systems, autonomous navigation and 3D simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), real-time and embedded computing, assistive technology, multi-agent systems and swarm robotics.

• Ejup Hoxha, Jinglun Feng, Diar Sanakov, Jizhong Xiao, “Robotic Inspection and Subsurface Defect Mapping using Impact-echo and Ground Penetration Radar”, IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS, VOL. 8, NO. 8, AUGUST 2023.
• Jinglun Feng, Liang Yang, Ejup Hoxha, Jiang Biao, Jizhong Xiao, “Subsurface Object 3D Modeling based on Ground Penetration Radar Using Deep Neural Network”, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2023, 37(6): 04023030. DOI: 10.1061/JCCEE5. CPENG-5359. © 2023 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Jinglun Feng, Liang Yang, Ejup Hoxha, Jiang Biao, Jizhong Xiao, “Robotic Inspection of Underground Utilities for Construction Survey Using a Ground Penetrating Radar”, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Published online: October 12, 2022, Vol. 37, Issue 1 (January 2023).
• Liang Yang, Bing Li, Jinglun Feng, Guoyong Yang, Yong Chang, Biao Jiang, Jizhong Xiao, “Automated Wall-climbing Robot For Concrete Construction Inspection", Journal of Field Robotics, Sept. 21, 2022, DOI: 10.1002/rob.22119
• Jinglun Feng, Liang Yang, Ejup Hoxha, Jizhong Xiao, “Improving 3D Metric GPR Imaging Using Robotic Data Collection and DNN-based Processing," IEEE Sensors Journal, 04 April 2022, DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2022.3164707.
• Liang Yang, Ivan Dryanovski, Roberto G. Valenti, George Wolberg, and Jizhong Xiao, “RGB-D Camera Calibration and Trajectory Estimation with Applications to Indoor Mapping”, Autonomous Robots 44(5), pp. 1485–1503, November 2020, DOI: 10.1007/s10514-020-09941-w
• Liang Yang, Bing Li, Wei Li, Howard Brand, Biao Jiang and Jizhong Xiao, "Concrete Defects Inspection and 3D Mapping Using CityFlyer Quadrotor Robot," IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 991-1002, July 2020. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2020.1003234.
• Bing Li, J. Pablo Munoz, Xuejian Rong, Qingtian Chen, Jizhong Xiao*, Yingli Tian, Aries Arditi, Mohammed Yousuf, “Vision-based Mobile Indoor Assistive Navigation Aid for Blind People”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume: 18, Issue: 3, March 1, 2019.
• Carlos Jaramillo, Liang Yang, J. Pablo Muñoz,·Yuichi Taguchi, Jizhong Xiao*, “Visual odometry with a single-camera stereo omnidirectional system”, Machine Vision and Applications (2019) 30:1145–1155.
• Bing Li, Liang Yang, Jizhong Xiao, Rich Valde, Michael Wrenn, Jim Leflar, “Collaborative Mapping and Autonomous Parking for Mulit-story Parking Garage”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. issue 99, pp1—11, March 2018.
• B. Li, K. Ushiroda, L. Yang, Q. Song, J. Xiao*. “Wall-Climbing Robot for Non-Destructive Evaluation using Impact-Echo and Metric Learning SVM”, International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, Volume 1, Issue 3, pp 255–270, Sept., 2017.
• Ivan Dryanovski, Matthew Klingensmith, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Jizhong Xiao, “Large Scale, real-time 3D scene reconstruction on a mobile device”, Autonomous Robots, 41:1423–1445, Springer, Feb. 24, 2017.
• Liang Yang，Liying Yang, Jizhong Xiao, Jianda Han, Lei Wang，”GART: An Environment Guided Path Planner for Robots in Crowded Environments Under Kinodynamic Constraints”, International Journal of Advanced Robotic System, vol. 13, no. 6, Nov. 28, 2016, SAGE Publications.
• van Dryanovski, Roberto Valenti, Jizhong Xiao,* "An Open-Source Navigation System for Micro-Air Vehicles", Autonomous Robots, 34:177~188, 2013.
• Xiaochen Zhang, Yi Sun, Jizhong Xiao*, "Radio Source Search Using Force Field Vector Weighted By Received Signal Strength Gradient", International Journal of Mechatronics and Automation, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp25~35, 2013.  
• Rex Wang*, Jizhong Xiao, Samleo Joseph, Shouling He, "A Mixed Model Data Association for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Dynamic Environments", International Journal of Mechatronics and Automation, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2013, pp1~15, 2013.
• Yi Sun, Jizhong Xiao, "Multicode Sparse-Sequence CDMA: Approach to Optimum Performance by Linearly Complex WSLAS Detectors", Wireless Personal Communications, Sept. 30, 2012.
• Xinan Pan, Hongguang Wang, Yong Jiang, Cen Yu, Jizhong Xiao, "Automatic Kinematic Modelling of a Modular Reconfigurable Robot", Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Volume 35 Issue 7, pp. 922 – 932, October 2013.
• Flavio Cabrera-Mora, Jizhong Xiao, "A Flooding Algorithm for Multi-robot Exploration", IEEE Transactions on System, Man and Cybernetics: Part-B: Cybernetics, Vol. 42, Issue 3, 850-863, 2012.
• Ravi Kaushik, Jizhong Xiao, Samleo L. Joseph, William Morris, "Polygon-based 3D Scan Registration with Dual-robots in Structured Indoor Environments", International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp101~123, 2012.
• Jun-Guo Lu, Jizhong Xiao, Weidong Chen, "Maximal unidirectional perturbation bounds for robust -stability of matrix second –order systems with one-parameter perturbations", Automatica, A Journal of IFAC -- The International Federation of Automatic Control, Elsevier, Vol. 48, Issue 5, pp995-998, May 2012.
• Ravi Kaushik, Jizhong Xiao, "Accelerated Patch-based Planar Clustering of Noisy Range Images in Structured Indoor Environments", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 60, Issue 4, pp. 584~598, 2012.
• Wenjia Tang, Jizhong Xiao, "Compact, Cylinder Conformal Multi-beam Antenna", International Journal on Communications, Antenna and Propagation, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp534-538, Dec. 2011.
• Jun-Guo Lu, Jizhong Xiao, Weidong Chen, "Quadratic Stability and Stabilization of Matrix Second-order Time-varying Systems", International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Wiley, online first in 29 September 2011, appeared in Int. J. Robust. Nonlinear Control 2012; 22:2100~2110.
• Igor Labutov, Carlos Jaramillo, Jizhong Xiao, "Generating Near-Spherical Range Panoramas by Fusing Optical Flow and Stereo from a Single-Camera Folded Catadioptric Rig", Machine Vision and Applications, Springer, pp. 1-12, 17 September 2011.
• Peter Brass, Flavio Cabrea-Mora, Andrea Gasparri, Jizhong Xiao, "Multi-Robot Tree and Graph Exploration", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp707~717, Aug. 2011.
• Ronggang Yue, Jizhong Xiao, Shaoping Wang, and Samleo Joseph, "3D Path Planning of a Climbing Robot Using Mixed Integer Linear Programming", Advanced Robotics, Vol. 24, pp2087-2118, Dec. 2010.
• Rex Wong, Jizhong Xiao, Samleo Joseph, "A Robust Data Association for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Dynamic Environments", INFORMATION, pp1869- 1883, Vol.13, No. 6, Nov. 2010.
• Xiaohai Li and Jizhong Xiao, "Swarming in Homogeneous Environments: A Social Interaction Based Theoretical Framework", Journal of Theoretical Biology, Elsevier, Vol. 264, Issue 3, pages 747-759, June 2010.
• Ronggang Yue, Jizhong Xiao, Kai Li, Jun Du and Shaoping Wang, "Design and Performance Analysis of Retractable-claw Wheels for Field Robots", International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp250~258, 2010.
• Jizhong Xiao, Hongguang Wang, Advances in Climbing Robots, Contemporary Issues in Systems Science and Engineering, Edited by M. C. Zhou, H-X Li and M. Weijnen, IEEE Press/Wiley, to appear in 2013.
• Ronggang Yue, Jizhong Xiao, Kai Li, Jun Du and Shaoping Wang, A Field Robot with Rotated-claw-wheels, Chapter 2, Mobile Robots --- State of the Art in Land, Sea, Air, and Collaborative Missions, In-Tech Education and Publishing, ISBN 978-3-902613-39-4, Vienna, Austria, 2009.
• Jizhong Xiao and Ali Sadegh, City-Climber: a new generation of wall-climbing robots, Chapter 18, Climbing and Walking Robots--- Towards New Applications, pp383-402, In-Tech Education and Publishing, ISBN 978-3-902613-16-5, Vienna, Austria, Oct. 2007.