Principal Investigator
Xin Wang, Ph.D.
Dr. Xin Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He completed his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Civil and Environment Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2024. During his Ph.D. study, he obtained the M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021. Before that, he received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Tongji University, China, in 2016 and 2019, respectively. He won the Best Academic Paper Award in Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies (TCRC) Conference in 2022. He is also the recipient of the Best Paper Award across all the tracks (~ 400 papers) at the 2024 CI & CRC Joint Conference.
Doctoral Students
Zhengyu Tao
Zhengyu Tao joined the lab in Spring 2026. He received his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is currently working on robotic manipulation in cluttered and unstructured environments.