Peiyi WANG is a Ph.D. graduate in Mechanical Engineering (2024) and currently serves as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology Centre (SMART). Before joining SMART, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
His research focus on soft continuum robot and its application in assistive and wearable fields.
Perception-Aware Multimodal Spatial Reasoning from Monocular Images
Yanchun Cheng (NUS, SMART), Rundong Wang (NUS), Xulei Yang (A*STAR), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), Marcelo Ang (NUS), Shijie Li (A*STAR)
IROS 2026 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center
Conference
2026
IROS 2026 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center
GLASS: A Global and Local Adaptive Segmentation System for Robust Transparent Object Perception
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)
IROS 2026 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center
Conference
2026
IROS 2026 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center
Urban motifs associated with population health
Winston Yap (MIT), Fabio Duarte (MIT), Yu Zheng (MIT), Kee Moon Jang (MIT), Peng Luo (MIT), Paolo Vineis (SPH, Imperial College London, UK), Carlo Ratti (MIT), Filip Biljecki (NUS)
Nature Health
Journal
2026
Digital Distortions: Auditing Bias in LLM-based Career Recommendations
Junyi Li (SMART), Baoshen Guo (SMART), Qishen Zhou (ZJU), Shenhao Wang (UF), Frank Pasquale (Cornell), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Journal
2026
SENSE: Satellite-based ENergy Synthesis for Sustainable Environment
Kailai Sun (SMART), Mingyi He (MIT), Heye Huang (SMART), Can Rong (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Baoshen Guo (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Conference
2026
32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
City-wide Origin-destination Matrix Generation via Cascaded Graph Denoising Diffusion
Can Rong (SMART), Jingtao Ding (Tsinghua University), Zicheng Liu (Alibaba Group), Peng Lu (PKU-Wuhan Institute for Artificial Intelligence), Yong Li (Tsinghua University)
Montreal, Canada
Conference
2026
ICDE 2026
ZipFold: Modular Actuators for Scaleable Adaptive Robots
Niklas Hagemann (MIT), Daniela Rus (MIT)
IEEE RoboSoft 2026
Conference
2026
IEEE RoboSoft 2026
Unified Structural-Hydrodynamic Modeling of Underwater Underactuated Mechanisms and Soft Robots
Chenrui Zhang (NUS), Yiyuan Zhang (NUS, SMART), Yunfei Ye (NUS), Junkai Chen (NUS), Haozhe Wang (SMART), Cecilia Laschi (NUS)
IROS 2026 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center
Conference
2026
IROS 2026
Where can AI be used? Insights from a deep ontology of work activities
Alice Cai (MIT), Iman YeckehZaare (MIT), Shuo Sun (SMART), Vasiliki Charisi (SMART), Xinru Wang (SMART), Aiman Imran (MIT), Robert Laubacher (MIT), Alok Prakash (SMART), Thomas Malone
