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 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. 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 Read more…
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 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 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) 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.
Our paper titled “One Human and Multi-Robot Collaboration: Evaluating the Impact of Attention-Guided On-Screen Recommendations on Human Multitasking Efficiency, Cognitive Load, and Trust” by Rajul Kumar, Renke Wang, and Dr. Ningshi Yao has been accepted by the 34th IEEE International Read more…
Our paper titled “Contention-Resolving Model Predictive Control for Coordinating Automated Vehicles at a Multi-lane Traffic Intersection” by Renke Wang, and Dr. Ningshi Yao has been accepted by the 2025 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA).
This summer, Ciao Lab is proud to launch the Airborne Robotic Cup (ARC)—a thrilling and educational robotic blimp soccer competition designed for students from 8th to 12th grade. Led by Dr. Ningshi Yao at George Mason University and in collaboration Read more…