Cong Wang
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
973-596-5744
313 Electrical and Computer Engineering Center (ECEC)
About Me
Dr. Cong Wang is a faculty member in the ECE department at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Before joining NJIT in 2015, Dr. Wang was a Lecturer and Research Engineer at University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his PhD degree in the area of Controls and Dynamics from UC Berkeley in 2014, before which he attended Tsinghua University and obtained his master's degree in Automotive Engineering and bachelor's degree in Manufacturing Engineering and Automation in 2010 and 2008 respectively.
Education
Ph.D. ; University of California-Berkeley ; Controls And Dynamics ; 2014

M.S. ; Tsinghua University ; Automotive Engineering ; 2010

B.S. ; Tsinghua University ; Manufacturing And Automation ; 2008

Awards & Honors

2020 NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Website
https://web.njit.edu/~wangcong
2025 Fall Courses
ECE 431 - INTRO TO FEEDBACK CONTROL SYST

ECE 417 - ELECT AND COMP ENGR PROJ II

ECE 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

ECE 593 - GRADUATE CO-OP WORK EXP IV

ECE 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

ECE 590 - GRADUATE COOP WORK EXPER I

ECE 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

ECE 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

ECE 791 - GRADUATE SEMINAR

ECE 591 - GRADUATE COOP WORK EXPER II

ECE 592 - GRADUATE COOP WORK EXPER III

ECE 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

Teaching Interests
Measurement and control systems
System dynamics
Robotics
Past Courses
ECE 431: INTRODUCTION TO FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEMS

ECE 432: ADVANCED CONTROL SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS

ECE 432: CONTROL SYSTEMS

ECE 432: CONTROL SYSTEMS ELECTIVE

ECE 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR

Research Interests
Data-oriented and nonlinear systems
Robot learning
Robot physical intelligence
Robotic manufacturing
Crowdsourced human computation
In Progress
Enhancing Robot Physical Intelligence via Crowdsourced Surrogate Learning

Remote labor using internet-based teleoperated robots and its societal impacts

Two-finger Multi-DOF robot hands for teleoperated and autonomous dexterous manipulations

Conference Paper
"AI-Aided Tooling for Domestic Robots"
2025 IEEE/ASME (AIM) International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2025.

"Minimalist Tooling and “Aim-and-Shoot” Skills for AI-Powered Robotic Manipulation"
2025 IEEE/ASME (AIM) International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2025.

"A Special-Purpose Video Streaming Codec for Internet-based Remote Driving"
2024 IEEE/ASME (AIM) International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2024.

"Comparing Link Sharing and Flow Completion Time in Traditional and Learning-based TCP"
25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2024.

"Integrated Object, Skill, and Motion Models for Nonprehensile Manipulation"
2024 IEEE/ASME (AIM) International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2024.

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Journal Article
Xueyu Hou, Yongjie Guan, Tao Han, Cong Wang. 2024. "Towards real-time embodied AI agent: a bionic visual encoding framework for mobile robotics." International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications .

Qinghua Zhu, Hongpeng Li, Cong Wang, Yan Hou. 2023. "Scheduling a Single-ARM Multi-Cluster Tool with a Condition-Based Cleaning Operation." IEEE/CAA JOURNAL OF AUTOMATICA SINICA , vol. 10 , no. 10 .

Jiawei Li, Lu Lu, Leidi Zhao, Cong Wang, Junhui Li. 2021. "An integrated approach for robotic Sit-To-Stand assistance: Control framework design and human intention recognition." Control Engineering Practice .

Leidi Zhao, Lu Lu, Cong Wang. 2021. "Data-Oriented State Space Discretization for Crowdsourced Robot Learning of Physical Skills." ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control , vol. 1 , no. 2 .

Bo Huang, Mengchu Zhou, Cong Wang, Abdullah Abusorrah, Yusuf Al-Turki. 2021. "Deadlock-free supervisor design for robotic manufacturing cells with uncontrollable and unobservable events." IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica .

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