Members | Intelligent Robotic Manipulation Lab

Li, Xiang / 李翔

Xiang LI received the Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2006 and 2008, and the PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University in 2013, respectively. From Aug. 2012 to Feb. 2015, he was a Research Fellow at the Intelligent Robotics Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From Feb. 2015 to Aug. 2016, he was a Research Fellow at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore. From Aug. 2016 to Aug. 2019, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been working as an Associate Professor since 2019 and was promoted to a tenured position in 2025 at the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University.

He has published three monographs distributed by Springer and Elsevier and authored over 100 papers. He has been the Associate Editor of IEEE TASE since 2023, the Associate Editor of IJRR since 2024, the Associate Editor of TRO since 2025, and the Senior Editor of IEEE RAL since 2026. He was the Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine from 2019 to 2021. He received the IROS Best Application Paper Finalist in 2017, the ICRA Best Medical Robotics Paper Finalist in 2024, the RAL Outstanding Associate Editor in 2024, and the TASE Best Associate Editor in 2025. He led the team and won first place at the 2024 ICRA Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Challenge – in-hand track, and also the Most Elegant Solution across all the tracks.