Event

Selected talks, oral presentations, flash talks, and poster presentations.

Selected Events and Presentations

  • August 2026 - I serve as Guest Editor for Special Issue on Biomimetic Humanoid Robotics in Biomimetics, together with Prof. Junzhi Yu.
  • 2026 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026), Vienna, Austria, Jun 2026. Oral presentation.
  • 2025 - 8th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2025), "25 Years of Embodied Intelligence" Workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland. Poster presentation.
  • 2024 - CHIA (Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence) Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Flash talk and poster presentation (Best Demo Award).
  • 2023 - IEEE ICRA Workshop on Bio-inspired, Biomimetics, and Biohybrid (Cyborg) Systems, London, United Kingdom. Flash talk and poster presentation.
  • 2023 - Understanding Intelligence Workshop, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Poster presentation.
  • 2023 - SMART International Conference and Business Event, Brussels, Belgium. Oral presentation.
  • 2023 - SMART International Symposium on Smart Materials, Leoben, Austria. Oral presentation.
  • 2022 - EPSRC Workshop on Soft Robotics for Mixed Reality, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Poster presentation.
  • 2022 - IEEE RoboSoft 2022, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Oral presentation (Finalist of Best Paper Award).
  • 2022 - IEEE ICPS 2022, online. Oral presentation.
  • 2022 - SSSA MSCA Training School “Applications of Smart Materials and Soft Robotics,” Pontedera, Italy. Oral presentation.
  • 2021 - SMART Workshop “Integration Smart Materials in Soft Robotics,” online. Oral presentation.

Footprint

A snapshot of my European academic and research connections, spanning MSCA trainings, secondments, and postdoctoral work.

Huijiang Wang's European footprint and networking map highlighting academic and research connections.
European footprint and networking connections across trainings, secondments, and postdoctoral work.

Talk Moments

Participants at the 25 Years of Embodied Intelligence workshop in Lausanne.
25 Years of Embodied Intelligence Workshop: June 2025, Lausanne. Our BIRL lab (Cambridge) and CREATE Lab (EPFL) hosted the workshop. I chaired a session, presented my work, and connected with many scholars. Our workshop invited speakers including Rolf Pfeifer, Brad Nelson (ETHZ), Metin Sitti (MPI), Cecilia Laschi (NUS), Aude Billard (EPFL), Auke Ijspeert (EPFL), Barry Trimmer (Tufts), Barbara Mazzolai (IIT), Bas Overvelde (TU/e, AMOLF), Kyu-Jin Cho (SNU), Thrish Nanayakkara (ICL), Oliver Brock (TU Berlin), Jamie Paik (EPFL), Yasuo Kuniyoshi (UTokyo), Arianna Menciassi (SSSA), Jonathan Rossiter (Bristol), Adam Stokes (Edinburgh), Josh Bongard (UVM), and 40+ speakers.
Group photo from the SSSA MSCA Training School in Pontedera, Italy.
SSSA MSCA Training School: August 2022, Pontedera, Italy. I gave an oral presentation during the training school on applications of smart materials and soft robotics.
Group photo from the PCCL MSCA Training in Leoben, Austria.
PCCL MSCA Training: June 2023, Leoben, Austria. I gave an oral presentation and joined the MSCA training discussions on smart materials, soft robotics, and research transfer.
Group photo from the VUB MSCA wrapping-up event in Brussels, Belgium.
VUB MSCA Wrapping-Up Event: September 2023, Brussels, Belgium. I presented my MSCA project work and joined the final project exchange with academic and industrial partners.
Group photo from the Understanding Intelligence Workshop in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Understanding Intelligence Workshop: February 2023, Cambridge, UK. We invited Prof. Rolf Pfeifer, author of Understanding Intelligence, to visit our BIRL lab.
Huijiang Wang presenting a poster and discussing with Professor Toshio Fukuda at a Pre-ICRA workshop in Cambridge.
Pre-ICRA Workshop: May 2023, Cambridge. We invited Prof. Toshio Fukuda, former IEEE President, to visit our BIRL lab for a Pre-ICRA workshop, where I presented a poster and discussed my robotics research with him.

ICRA 2026 Presentation Video

Oral presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026), Vienna, Austria, Jun 2026.

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CHIA 2024 Flash Talk Video

My 1-min presentation at the CHIA (Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence) Conference in Cambridge received the Best Demo Award.

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