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
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)
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
