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Ridong Jiang is a robotics researcher whose work centers on affective human-robot interaction, service robot architectures, and dialogue systems for social robots. His most cited paper, "Affective social interaction with CuDDler robot" (2013, 19 citations), introduces a robot capable of recognizing and responding to users' emotional acts, demonstrating how affective computing can enhance social interactions. This foundational work explores the utility of emotionally aware robots in improving user engagement. Jiang also contributed significantly to the design of flexible, extensible software frameworks for service robots, as detailed in "A software architecture framework for service robots" (2011, 5 citations), which has been successfully applied in real-world systems. His development of the Component Pluggable Dialogue Framework (2013, 5 citations) and event-driven dialogue systems for social mobile robots (2009, 5 citations) further showcases his expertise in integrating multimodal interaction components. Additionally, Jiang's work on the FusionBot barista robot (2009, 9 citations) and an interactive robot butler (2009, 5 citations) highlights his practical approach to deploying robots in everyday environments. With a total of 50 citations across his top papers, Jiang's research has laid important groundwork for creating more socially adept and functionally robust service robots.