I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Gradudate School of Informatics at Kyoto University, supported by the Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship. I conduct research in the Human-Robot Interaction Lab under the supervision of Prof. Takayuki Kanda. My research mainly focuses on human-robot interaction, and social robotics.

Selected Publications

Publications

Communicating Physical Properties through Robot Object Manipulation

Xiang Pan *, Malcolm Doering, Stela H. Seo, and Takayuki Kanda

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Melbourne, Australia, 2025

Note: Top HRI conference, 25% acceptance rate (100/400)

What Is Your Other Hand Doing, Robot? A Model of Behavior for Shopkeeper Robot's Idle Hand

Xiang Pan *, Malcolm Doering, and Takayuki Kanda

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Colorado, USA, 2024

Note: Top HRI conference, 24.7% acceptance rate (87/352)

Efficient Barcode Localization Method for Low-Quality Images

Xiang Pan, Dong Li, Weijia Wu, and Hong Zhou *

International Conference on Graphics and Signal Processing, Hong Kong, China, 2019

Academic Service

  • Conference Reviewer

    • ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2023
    • ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2025
    • ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2025
    • IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), 2025
    • ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC), 2025
    • IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2025
    • IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2024
    • International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI), 2024
  • Journal Reviewer

    • Electronics Letters
  • Student Volunteer

    • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022

Selected Awards

  • Outstanding Graduate, Zhejiang University, 2020
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Leader, Zhejiang University, 2018
  • Outstanding Graduate, Anhui Province, 2017
  • Youth May Fourth Medal, Anhui University of Technology, 2017 (Highest Honor for Undergraduate Students)

Education

  • Kyoto University (2022.4 - Present)
    Ph.D. Student, Kyoto, Japan

  • Zhejiang University (2017.9 - 2020.6)
    M.S., Hangzhou, China

  • Anhui University of Technology (2013.9 - 2017.7)
    B.S., Ma’anshan, China