Hesheng Wang

Hesheng Wang is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Automation at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he also serves as Dean of the Global College. He holds the Tang Jun Yuan Chair Professorship and is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. His research spans intelligent robotics, embodied AI, visual servoing, autonomous vehicles, and medical and soft robots, with over 300 published papers and multiple best paper awards from major international robotics conferences. He is the General Chair of IROS 2025 and serves as an editor or associate editor for several IEEE journals including IEEE Transactions on Robotics.