The National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted one of the most prestigious early-career honors to the director of CIAO lab, Dr. Ningshi Yao. The NSF CAREER Award, funded by the Energy, Power, Control, and Learning (EPCL) Program, recognizes Yao’s pioneering work. The five-year $628K grant will support her research on Read more…
Our paper entitled “Dynamic modeling and integrated control framework for an eye-like robot with torsional–positional decoupling and Listing’s law enforcement” by Dr. Ningshi Yao with our collaborators Pouya Kassaeiyan, and Dr. Qi Wei has been accepted by IFAC Open journal.
Dr. Yao received a $750k grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to establish a hands-on mechatronics training program aimed at building the next generation of high-tech engineering technologists. The three-year funding will support the creation of the Natural EXTension (NEXT) program. As emerging technologies like autonomous systems, artificial Read more…
We are proud to announce that Dr. Ningshi Yao, Director of the CIAO Lab, has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (TSMCS): Systems. IEEE TSMCS is a premier journal in the fields of systems engineering, human-machine interaction, and cybernetics, known for Read more…
Dr. Yao joined the organizing committee and serve as the Special Session Chair for the 35th IEEE RO-MAN 2026! She will also serve as an Associate Editor for RO-MAN2026. The conference will take place in Kitakyushu, Japan, in August 2026. We look forward to the special sessions and contributing to Read more…
Dr. Yao has been invited to speak at Purdue University’s ICON (Institute for Control, Optimization, and Networks) Weekly Seminar on Sep 26. Title: Dynamics and Control of Lighter-Than-Air Autonomous Blimps: Design, Development, and DeploymentDate/Time: Friday, September 26, 2025 | 3:00–4:30 PM (ET)Location: MSEE 112, Purdue UniversityZoom Link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/95468302127
Dr. Ningshi Yao will be giving a seminar at the University of Notre Dame. Looking forward to sharing our work on contention resolving MPC and discussing its applications in cyber-physical-human systems, from networked control to human-robot collaboration. Title: Resolve Contentions Through Real-time Control and Scheduling Co-design for Cyber-Physical-Human Systems Date/Time: Read more…
Ciao Lab, led by Dr. Ningshi Yao, successfully launched the Airborne Robotics Cup (ARCup) in Gaithersburg, Md on August 17, 2025. ARCup is a hands-on robotics and AI competition featuring miniature robotic blimps designed and piloted by middle and high school students. It takes the form of a 3D aerial Read more…
Dr. Ningshi Yao has been awarded a prestigious $1.17 million R01 grant, from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), to lead a groundbreaking 4 year project. The award comes from the joint National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) “Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Read more…
Our paper entitled “Avoiding Chatters with Hesitation in Human-Robot Co-Learning” by Dr. Ningshi Yao with our collaborators Dr. Yingke Li, Dr. Carol Young, and Dr. Fumin Zhang has been accepted by Unmanned Systems journal.