Junxiang (Jim) Wang 王俊翔

Robotics Researcher

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Hi! I’m Jim! I’m a first-year Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Zackory Erickson. Prior to joining RI, I obtained my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S.E. in Robotics from Johns Hopkins University, where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Peter Kazanzides, Prof. Chien-Ming Huang, and Prof. Iulian Iordachita.

I am broadly interested in human-robot interaction. Specifically, my work focuses on natural-language communication between humans and agents, as well as physical interactions between humans and robots.

Contact: junxiang [at] cmu [dot] edu

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news

Feb 17, 2025 dVRK digital twin was accepted to present at ISMR 2025 in Atlanta! (code , paper )
Dec 03, 2024 LLM-powered voice assistant was published in IJHCS!
Jun 30, 2023 Motion compensation for mobile PET imaging was accepted to present at IROS 2023 in Detroit!
Apr 15, 2022 Motion measurement for PET imaging won Best Student Paper at ISMR 2022 in Atlanta!

selected publications

  1. CoRI: Synthesizing Communication of Robot Intent for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
    Junxiang Wang, Emek Barış Küçüktabak, Rana Soltani Zarrin, and Zackory Erickson
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.20537, 2025
  2. User interaction patterns and breakdowns in conversing with LLM-powered voice assistants
    International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2025
  3. A digital twin for telesurgery under intermittent communication
    Junxiang Wang*, Juan Antonio Barragan*, Hisashi Ishida*, Jingkai Guo, Yu-Chun Ku, and Peter Kazanzides
    In 2025 International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR), 2025
  4. Situated Understanding of Older Adults’ Interactions with Voice Assistants: A Month-long In-home Study
    Amama Mahmood, Junxiang Wang, and Chien-Ming Huang
    arXiv e-prints, 2024