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Jiuguang Wang is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous navigation, humanoid robot control, multi-robot coordination, and off-road autonomy. His research bridges fundamental control theory with cutting-edge machine learning, resulting in systems that enable robots to operate intelligently across complex, real-world environments. Wang's most celebrated contribution is Vision-Language Frontier Maps (VLFM), a zero-shot semantic navigation framework that draws on human-inspired exploration strategies to guide robots through unfamiliar environments without task-specific training — a paper that has already accumulated 93 citations since its 2024 publication. That same year, his EVORA framework (36 citations) demonstrated how deep evidential learning can equip robots with risk-aware judgment for fast off-road traversal, advancing the frontier of autonomous ground vehicles. Earlier in his career, Wang made significant strides in humanoid robotics, developing optimization-based strategies for whole-body falling trajectories (32 citations), dynamic push recovery (11 citations), and obstacle-aware limbo-style locomotion (33 citations). His multi-robot work — covering persistent formations, graph grammar-based deployment, and heterogeneous sensor networks — further established his versatility. Wang's portfolio reflects a consistent ambition: transforming difficult, often dangerous robotic challenges into rigorously engineered, elegant solutions.