Xi Wang

Xi Wang

Ph.D. Candidate in Civil Engineering

University of Michigan

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
  • Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Expected 2022

    University of Michigan

  • M.S. in Robotics, 2021

    University of Michigan

  • M.S.E. in Construction Engineering and Management, 2018

    University of Michigan

  • B.E. in Construction Management, 2017

    Dongbei University of Finance and Economics

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Unviersity of Michigan
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Jan 2019 – Present Michigan, U.S.
  • 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
 
 
 
 
 
Unviersity of Michigan
Graduate Student Instructor
Jan 2021 – Apr 2021 Michigan, U.S.
  • 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
 
 
 
 
 
Unviersity of Michigan
Research Assistant
Sep 2017 – Dec 2018 Michigan, U.S.
  • 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
 
 
 
 
 
Dalian Investment Verification Center
Project Cost Engineering Intern
Dalian Investment Verification Center
Jul 2016 – Oct 2016 Dalian, China
  • 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.

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(2021). Human-Robot Collaboration in Construction: Classification and Research Trends. In Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.

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(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.

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(2019). Investigating the Neurophysiological Effect of Thermal Environment on Individuals' Performance Using Electroencephalogram. In Building and Environment.

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