About Me

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Dr. Wenbo Ding is now an associate professor and leading the smart sensing and robotics (SSR) group in Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University. He received the B.E and Ph.D. degrees (both with the highest honors) from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2011 and 2016, respectively, and then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, under the supervision of Professor Z. L. Wang from 2016 to 2019. He has published over 70 journal and conference papers and received many prestigious awards, including the National Early-Career Award, the IEEE Scott Helt Memorial Award for the best paper published in IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, the 2019 Natural Science Award (Second Prize) from Institute of Electronics, the Gold Medal and Special Prize at the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, the Tsinghua Top Grade Scholarship (highest student honor in Tsinghua), the Tsinghua Lin Feng Counsellor Prize (highest student mentor honor in Tsinghua). His research interests are diverse and interdisciplinary, which include self-powered sensors, energy harvesting, wearable devices for health and soft robotics with the help of signal processing, machine learning and mobile computing.

Research Interests

Signal processing for robotics
Embodied AI
Human-computer interfaces
Multi-agent reinforcement learning

Contact

Email: ding.wenbo at sz.tsinghua.edu.cn; vincentdwb at gmail.com

Web: https://ssr-group.net/; SlGS Official Website

Address: Room 1105, Information Technology Building, Tsinghua Shenzhen, International Graduate School, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055

Openings

I am always looking for the self-motivated students with the background of electrical engineering, electronic engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering and materials science, and especially the ones who enjoy the experience to build up a working system. If you are interested in working with us as a PostDoc or PhD / Master / Visiting student, please contact me. For those applying for the TBSI graduate programs (master and PhD), please remeber to choose the Big data and artificial intelligence direction.

Please email me with a copy of your CV if you are interested.

News

[2026/01] Our work on cross-embodiment learning for 3D visuomotor policy has been accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Congrats to Tong and Shoujie!
[2025/12] Our work on near-sensor computing and memory system has been accepted by Device as the front cover. Congrats to Qinghao!
[2025/11] Hongfa and Chun received the China Postdoc General Projects, congrats!
[2025/11] One paper got accepted in AAAI 2026, congrats to Lingfeng!
[2025/11] I am invited to join the Nano Energy’s Early Career Researcher Board. Thank you for the nomination and recognition.
[2025/10] I am humbled to be selected as the New Generation Star at IROS 2025. Thank the committee for this recognition and this honor could not be possible without the efforts of all group members.
[2025/09] Our work on flexible integrated robot has been accepted by Science Advances (SA) as front cover. Congrats to Xiaosa!
[2025/08] Our work on robot liquid manipulation has been accepted by Journal of Field Robotics (JFR) as front cover. Congrats to Yan!
[2025/07] Our work on Self-Powered Optical Communication: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Prospects has been accepted by Advanced Energy Materials (AEM). Congrats to Zihan, Jiarong and Hongfa!
[2025/04] Our work on bimodal visuotactile tire has been accepted by Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH). Congrats to Shoujie!
[2025/03] Our work on robot liquid manipulation has been accepted by Journal of Field Robotics (JFR)! Congrats to Yan!
[2025/02] My course “Nanogenerators and Self-powered Systems” has ranked top 5% in the student evaluation (Fourth time). Thank you for your support.
[2025/01] Five papers have been accepted by IEEE ICRA 2025, see you in Atlanta! Congrats to Shoujie, Ran, Xiaosa, Chenxin!
[2025/01] Our work on enhanced low-rank approximation technique has been accepted by TMLR. Congrats to Yuzhu!
[2025/01] Our work on Sample efficiency RKHS Reinforcement Learning algorithm has been accepted by ICLR 2025. Congrats to Yixian and Huaze!
[2025/01] Our work on Mean-Field Aided QMIX: A Scalable and Flexible Q-Learning Approach for Large-Scale Agent Groups has been accepted by ICASSP 2025. Congrats to Enze and Huaze!
[2025/01] I have been invited to join the advisory board member of Electronics and Signal Processing.
[2024/12] Our work on Mechanoluminescent Visuotactile Sensor for Intelligent Interactions has been accepted by Advanced Functional Materials. Congrats to Kit-Wa, Henry and Eric!
[2024/11] Shilong won the first prize in Low-altitude Economic Intelligent Flight Management Challenge! Congrats!
[2024/11] Shoujie won the Autonomous Robotic Technology Seminar (ARTS) Scholarship! Congrats!
[2024/11] Shilong won the National Graduate Scholarship and other 14 students (Jiarong, Shoujie, Hongfa, Xiaosa, Tong Wu, Runze, Liguang, Xuan Zhang, Ran Yu, Jiaqi, Zhancong, Xinyue, Changxu and Jingyang) won the university and school level scholarhips! Congrats!
[2024/10] I have been invited to join the youth editorial board of Robot Learning.
[2024/10] I have been invited to serve as the area chair of IEEE ICASSP 2025.
[2024/09] Our work on the wearable vibrotactile guidance has been accepted by lEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (lF: 4.6). Congrats to Xiaosa and Runze!
[2024/09] Our review on the application of nanogenerators in robotics has been accepted by the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing (IF:16.1). Congrats to Hongfa and Liguang.
[2024/08] Our work on Multispectral Multimodal Visuotactile Sensor has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Congrats to Shoujie!
[2024/07] Our work on a hybrid wind and raindrop energy harvesting operating on savonius turbine has been accepted by Nano Energy (lF: 16.8) as front cover. Congrats to Kit-Wa, Zenan and Yuchao!
[2024/06] Our work on the Scalable Mean-Field MARL Framework for V2X resource allocation has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (IF: 14.0). Congrats to Xuan and Hengxi!
[2024/06] Our review on visuotactile sensors has been accepted by IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP). Congrats to Shoujie!
[2024/06] Our work on tactile sensing of quadruped robot has been accepted by IEEE Sensors journal (IF: 4.3). Congrats to Ziwu and Chenchang!
[2024/05] I have been invited to deliver a seminar at IEEE Distinguished Webinar Series. See you this August on the air!
[2024/02] Our work on CS-TENG theory has been accepted by Energy & Environmental Science (IF: 32.5). Congrats to Hongfa!
[2024/01] Four papers got accepted by IEEE ICRA 2024. Congrats and See you in Japan!
[2024/01] Jiyu will join Huazhong University of Science and Technology as associate professor. Huge congrats and thank you for your contribution to SSR group!

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