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Join Us as Undergraduate or Master Researcher
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Curious about AI, robotics, or smart manufacturing? Our lab welcomes undergraduate and master’s students to join projects in human-robot collaboration, operator behavior prediction, intelligent manufacturing systems, and more. Interdisciplinary curiosity and initiative matter most.
First-Year Assistant Professor Award, FSU
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Dr. Zhang received the First-Year Assistant Professor Award @ FSU.
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Xinyao (Cynthia) Zhang

Upcoming Assistant
Professor in Industrial &
Manufacturing Engineering
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Automatic Screw Detection and Tool Recommendation System for Robotic Disassembly
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, 2022
Xinyao Zhang, Kareem Eltouny, Xiao Liang, Sara Behdad
Unsupervised Human Activity Recognition Learning for Disassembly Tasks
Published in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2023
Xinyao Zhang, Daiyao Yi, Sara Behdad, Shreya Saxena
Early Prediction of Human Intention for Human–Robot Collaboration Using Transformer Network
Published in Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 2024
Xinyao Zhang, Sibo Tian, Xiao Liang, Minghui Zheng, Sara Behdad
Multi-Task Learning for Intention and Trajectory Prediction in Human–Robot Collaborative Disassembly Tasks
Published in Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 2025
Xinyao Zhang, Sibo Tian, Xiao Liang, Minghui Zheng, Sara Behdad
Predictive Repair Management Using Multi-Head Attention Transformer and Online Learning
Published in ASME IDETC-CIE, 2025
Xinyao Zhang, Willie Cade, Karl R. Haapala, Arun Natarajan, Sara Behdad
Evaluating Large and Lightweight Vision Models for Irregular Component Segmentation in E-Waste Disassembly
Published in ASME MSEC, 2026
Xinyao Zhang, Chang Liu, Xiao Liang, Minghui Zheng, Sara Behdad
Precise Robot Command Understanding Using Grammar-Constrained Large Language Models
Published in ASME MSEC, 2026
Xinyun Huo, Raghav Gnanasambandam, Xinyao Zhang
