I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate in the Gradudate School of Informatics at Kyoto University, funded by the Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship. I conduct research in the Human-Robot Interaction Lab under the supervision of Prof. Takayuki Kanda. My research focuses on human-robot interaction and embodied AI, with an emphasis on designing informative manipulation to improve the transparency and naturalness of robot actions in human-shared environments.

Selected Publications

Publications

Communicating Object Relations through Robot Gestures

Xiang Pan *, Malcolm Doering, and Takayuki Kanda

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2026

Note: Top-tier HRI venue, 23.2% acceptance rate (129/557)

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-tier HRI venue, 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-tier HRI venue, 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, 2026
    • 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)

Teaching Experience

  • Teaching Assistant, Information System Analysis, 2025, Kyoto University

Education

  • Kyoto University (Apr. 2022 – Jan. 2026 expected)
    Ph.D., Kyoto, Japan
  • Zhejiang University (Sept. 2017 – June 2020)
    M.S., Hangzhou, China
  • Anhui University of Technology (Sept. 2013 – July 2017)
    B.S., Ma’anshan, China