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Xiaonan (Sean) Huang

Xiaonan (Sean) Huang

Assistant Professor, Robotics

Email xiaonanh@umich.edu

Research Interests Design, control, and modeling of autonomous multi-terrain soft robots and tensegrity robots, integration of novel soft multifunctional materials into soft machines, and development of novel soft actuators, sensors, and wearable devices.

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Honors and awards

2025
Best Poster Award in Multi-Stable and Origami-based Soft Robots — ICRA
2025
Best Student Paper — CSCWD
2022
Best Paper Award — IEEE Sensors Conference
2021
Best PhD Dissertation Award — Carnegie Mellon University
2019
Best Paper Award — 2nd international PhD Academic Forum on Intelligent Manufacturing (IPAFIM 2019)
2018
Best Student Poster — Materials Research Society Symposium on Materials for Energy Applications