I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Human-Robot Interaction Lab at Kyoto University, where I collaborate with Prof. Takayuki Kanda. My research lies at the intersection of human–robot interaction and embodied AI. My previous work has focused on developing expressive manipulation strategies to enhance the transparency, legibility, and naturalness of robot behavior in human-shared environments.

Currently, I investigate how robots can infer and respond to human intentions by leveraging large language models (LLMs) and vision–language models (VLMs), informed by insights from psychology to enable socially appropriate behavior in human–robot interaction.

I am seeking postdoctoral opportunities starting around October 2026.

News

• 2026-02: Started my postdoctoral research at Kyoto University!
• 2025-12: Successfully defended my PhD viva.
• 2025-12: One paper is accepted by HRI 2026.
• 2024-12: One paper is accepted by HRI 2025.

Selected Publications

More publications can be found on my Google Scholar.

Academic Service

• Conference Workshop Organiser

  • Multi-Agentic Systems in HRI (MAgicS-HRI): Bridging Design and Real-World Challenges for End Users, HRI’26

• Conference Review

  • ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2025, 2026
  • ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2023
  • ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2025, 2026
  • ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC), 2025, 2026
  • ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI), 2026
  • IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), 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 Review

  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)

• Student Volunteer

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

Selected Awards

• Excellent Postgraduate Student Award, Zhejiang University, 2020
• Outstanding Graduate Leader Award, Zhejiang University, 2018
• Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Anhui Province, 2017
• Youth May Fourth Medal, Anhui University of Technology, 2017 (Highest Undergraduate Honor, 10 Awardees University-wide)

Education

• Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  Ph.D. in Social Informatics (Apr 2022 – Jan 2026)
  Advisor: Prof. Takayuki Kanda

• Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
  M.S. in Instrument and Meter Engineering (Sept 2017 – Jun 2020)
  Advisor: Prof. Hong Zhou

• Anhui University of Technology, Ma’anshan, China
  B.S. in Electronic and Information Engineering (Sept 2013 – Jul 2017)
  Advisor: Prof. Bing Wang