Biography
Xi Wang is a Ph.D. Candidate working with professors Carol Menassa and Vineet Kamat at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan. Her research interest is in creating a much safer, productive, and comfortable construction and built environment through an automated connected interaction system among humans, robots, and infrastructure. She is also pursing a Master of Science degree in Robotics at the University of Michigan.
Interests
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Learning from Demonstrations
- Human-Building Interaction
- Physiological Sensing
- Virtual Reality (VR)
Education
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Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Expected 2022
University of Michigan
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M.S. in Robotics, 2021
University of Michigan
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M.S.E. in Construction Engineering and Management, 2018
University of Michigan
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B.E. in Construction Management, 2017
Dongbei University of Finance and Economics
Experience
Graduate Student Research Assistant
- Interactive and Immersive Digital Twin for Human-Robot Collaborative Construction
- Integrating Building Information Model (BIM) into Construction Robotics
- Robot Construction Task Learning from Demonstration
- Human-Centric Indoor Monitoring and Control
Graduate Student Instructor
- Delivered lectures in weekly online lab sessions
- Developed and administed lab projects (project delivery , construction cost estimation, dispute resolution, project scheduling, resource planning) and weekly quizzes materials
- General Administrations
Research Assistant
- Human Mental Workload and Performance in Different Indoor Enviornments
- Advancing Caregivers' Skills and Comfort Level in Ambulatory Ontology Settings
- Promoting Independent Mobility for People with Physical Disabilities with Crowdsourcing Mechanism and SLAM
- Life Cycle Assessments for Interdependencies in Community Resilience
Project Cost Engineering Intern
Dalian Investment Verification Center
- Tender Document and Budget Auditing for Infrastructure Construction Projects
- Instrastructure Construction Funds Utilization Tracking
Selected Publications
(2021).
Interactive and Immersive Process-Level Digital Twin for Collaborative Human–Robot Construction Work.
In Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering.
(2021).
Human-Robot Collaboration in Construction: Classification and Research Trends.
In Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.
(2021).
Measurement and prediction of work engagement under different indoor lighting conditions using physiological sensing.
In Building and Environment.
(2019).
Can infrared facial thermography disclose mental workload in indoor thermal environments?.
In 1st ACM International Workshop on Urban Building Energy Sensing, Controls, Big Data Analysis, and Visualization.
(2019).
Investigating the Neurophysiological Effect of Thermal Environment on Individuals' Performance Using Electroencephalogram.
In Building and Environment.
