Marcelo H. Ang, Jr. received the B.S. degrees (Cum Laude) in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management Engineering from the De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, in 1981; the M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Un iversity of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1985; and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, in 1986 and 1988, respectively.
His work experience include heading the Technical Training Division of Intel's Assembly and Test Facility in the Philippines, research positions at the East West Center in Hawaii and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a faculty position as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Rochester, New York. In 1989, Dr. Ang joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the National University of Singapore, where he is currently a Professor. In addition to academic and research activities, he is actively involved in the Singapore Robot ic Games as its founding chairman. His research interests span the areas of robotics, mechatronics, automation, computer control, and applications of intelligent systems methodologies.
3-RRS and 3-RRUR parallel manipulators as spatial positioning manipulators
Year of Publication:
Venue:
Int. Symp. Robot. Res. (ISRR), 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Wu Yongxin (NUS), Luis Hernandez (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Cecilia Laschi (NUS), Marcelo Ang (NUS), Fabio Duarte (MIT) and Daniela Rus (MIT)
Two-finger soft gripper with a scaled-pad contact interface for dual-mode grasping and surface cleaning
Year of Publication:
Venue:
IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intell. Robots Syst. (IROS), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Luis Hernandez (SMART), Zhi Cong Wong (SMART), Mong Juin Hwaye (NUS), Wu Yongxin (NUS), Do Van Minh (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Cecilia Laschi (NUS), Marcelo Ang (NUS), Fabio Duarte (MIT) and Daniela Rus (MIT)
Perception-Aware Multimodal Spatial Reasoning from Monocular Images
Year of Publication:
Venue:
IROS 2026 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Yanchun Cheng (NUS, SMART), Rundong Wang (NUS, Flexiv), Xulei Yang (A*STAR), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), Marcelo Ang (NUS), Shijie Li (A*STAR)
GLASS: A Global and Local Adaptive Segmentation System for Robust Transparent Object Perception
Year of Publication:
Venue:
IROS 2026 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Yanchun Cheng (NUS, SMART), Rundong Wang (NUS, Flexiv), Christina Dao Wen Lee (NUS), Zefan Huang (NUS), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), Marcelo Ang (NUS)
Physical Human-Robot Interaction for Grasping in Augmented Reality via Rigid-Soft Robot Synergy
Year of Publication:
Venue:
9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Huishi Huang (NUS, SMART), Jack Klusmann (TUM, SMART), Haozhe Wang (SMART), Shuchen Ji (NUS), Fengkang Ying (NUS, SMART), Yiyuan Zhang (NUS, SMART), John Nassour (TUM), Gordon Cheng (TUM), Daniela Rus (MIT), Jun Liu (A*STAR), Marcelo H Ang Jr (NUS), Cecilia Laschi (NUS)
RaCaP: Radar-Camera Perception Leveraging Attention Layers and Heuristics in Bird’s Eye View for Autonomous Driving
Year of Publication:
Venue:
International Symposium on Experimental
Robotics (ISER) 2025
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Christina Dao Wen Lee (NUS), Min Young Lee (NUS), Jianghao Li (NUS), Zefan Huang (NUS), Jiawei Sun (NUS), Chengran Yuan (NUS), Marcelo Ang (NUS)
AGI-Elo: How far are we from mastering a task?
Year of Publication:
Venue:
NeurIPS
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Shuo Sun (SMART), Yimin Zhao (NUS), Christina Dao Wen Lee (NUS), Jiawei Sun (NUS), Chengran Yuan (NUS), Zefan Huang (NUS), Dongen Li (NUS) , Justin KW Yeoh (NUS), Alok Prakash (SMART), Thomas Malone (MIT), and Marcelo Ang (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025
2025
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Wang Rundong (NUS, Flexiv), Cheng Yanchun (NUS, SMART), Yuan Qilong (SIT), Alok Prakash (SMART), Francis EH Tay (NUS), Marcelo Ang (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
IROS 2025
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Chengran Yuan (NUS), Zijian Lu (NUS), Zhanqi Zhang (NUS), Yimin Zhao (NUS), Zefan Huang (NUS), Shuo Sun (SMART), Jiawei Sun (NUS), Jiahui Li (NUS), Christina Dao Wen Lee (NUS), Dongen Li (NUS), Marcelo Ang (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
ICRA 2025
2024
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Shuo Sun (SMART), Zekai Gu (NUS), Tianchen Sun (NUS), Jiawei Sun (NUS), Chengran Yuan (NUS) Yuhang Han (NUS), Dongen Li (NUS) & Marcelo Ang (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
ICRA 2025
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Jiawei Sun (NUS), Jiahui Li (NUS), Tingchen Liu (NUS), Chengran Yuan (NUS), Shuo Sun (SMART), Zefan Huang (NUS), Anthony Wong (Moovita), Keng Peng Tee (Moovita), Marcelo Ang (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
Long Beach, USA
2024
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Chengran Yuan (NUS), Zhanqi Zhang (NUS), Jiawei Sun (NUS), Shuo Sun (SMART), Zefan Huang (NUS), Christina Dao Wen Lee (NUS), Dongen Li (NUS), Yuhang Han (NUS), Anthony Wong (Moovita), Keng Peng Tee (Moovita), Marcelo Ang (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
2025
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Fengkang Ying (NUS), Hanwen Zhang (NUS), Haozhe Wang (SMART), Huishi Huang (NUS), Marcelo Ang (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
npj Robotics
2025
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Huishi Huang (co-first authors) (NUS), Haozhe Wang (co-first authors) (SMART), Chongyu Fang (NUS), Mingge Yan (NUS), Ruochen Xu (NUS), Yiyuan Zhang (NUS), Zhanchi Wang (USTC), Fenkang Ying (NUS), Jun Liu (A*STAR), Cecilia Laschi (NUS) & Marcelo Ang (NUS)