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Jiuguang Wang
Lorenz attractor
Born July 31, 1988 (1988-07-31) (age 19)
Beijing, China
Residence United States
Citizenship People's Republic of China
Nationality Chinese
Ethnicity Han
Fields Robotics
Control theory
Institutions Georgia Institute of Technology
Alma mater Georgia Institute of Technology
Academic advisors Magnus B. Egerstedt
Ayanna M. Howard
Religious stance Apathetic agnosticism

I am currently a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, majoring in electrical engineering, specializing in robotics. Although I’ve been known to flirt with algorithms, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and control theory, I mainly consider myself to be a roboticist.

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[edit] Childhood

I was born on July 31, 1988 in Beijing, China as the only son of Yupeng Wang and Xiaojun Qi. In 1994, my father, a researcher in structural engineering at the China Academy of Building Research's Institute of Earthquake Engineering, was given a fellowship for Ph.D. studies at the University of Memphis, and my mother, who followed him in 1995, left me to my maternal grandparents. My grandfather, a chemist, and my grandmother, an applied mathematician, were both retired at the time. Although they had surprising amount of energy to deal with a very active me, my extracurricular pursues were mostly limited to academic subjects and developed an antipathy for sports.

Trained as a bibliophile from an early age, I was an avid reader of world literature, history, and philosophy, with a particular emphasis on Chinese classics such as classical poetry and historical novels. I listened to mostly classical music and held a special fascination for The Blue Danube as well as the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. After brief trainings on the arts of the violin and piano, I soon discovered that my hands are better suited for another kind of keyboard.

My first computer was an used Intel 80386, running Microsoft Windows 3.1x. Dissatisfied with its lack of a particular application named solitaire, I demanded a replacement. Boasting an Intel Pentium processor and Windows 95, my second computer became my most trusted ally. It was on this computer that I was first introduced to the internet, provided by the ISP 263.net, which lead to my subsequent discovery of the Song of Eternal Sorrow, a famous long poem by the Tang dynasty poet Bai Juyi, a poem I later memorized. I typed up my first essay on this computer, and coupled with a dot matrix printer, it was accepted for publication with a then enormous reward of ¥50. I was also a fanatical gamer, obsessed with The Legend of Sword and Fairy and Command and Conquer.

[edit] Education

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Tech Tower

I moved to the United States on December 1, 2000, and was enrolled in East Cobb Middle School. Moving swiftly to the Alan C. Pope High School in 2002, I became dissatisfied with my academic progress, sitting through dry lectures on the quadratic equations and Descartes' theorem. I left Pope in 2004, and after some struggle with the establishments, I relocated to the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, where I eventually received two B.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, respectively, in May, 2008. During my undergraduate studies, I completed 204 credits of coursework, approximately 70 classes, in exactly four years. I specialized in robotics and control theory, and worked as an assistant for researchers such as Tucker R. Balch, Magnus B. Egerstedt, Ayanna M. Howard, and Silas Alben. I took the Fundamentals of Engineering exam on April 12, 2008, and became a registered Engineer In Training in the state of Georgia.

During my time at Georgia Tech, I enjoyed readings in a variety of topics under the great umbrella of robotics, centered around perception, autonomy, and control. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

[edit] Research

Robotics

[edit] Wikipedia

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According to the official Wikipedia records, I made my first edit on October 20, 2006, at 5:39:37 PM. Although I've been a frequent reader before and after the first edit, my real contributions did not begin until March 30, 2008, when I started adding my nonlinear control notes to Wikipedia and started a series of articles on the subject. I created my first article on the backstepping technique on March 31, 2008, and since then, I've made contributions to a variety of articles ranging from routing algorithms to Nobel Prize laureates. Currently, I'm a member of

[edit] Trivia

[edit] References

  1. ^ Brogan, W.L. (1991). Modern Control Theory. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0135897637. 
  2. ^ Khalil, H.K. (2001). Nonlinear Systems. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0130673897. 
  3. ^ Jazwinski, A.H. (2007). Stochastic Processes and Filtering Theory. Dover Publications. ISBN 0486462749. 
  4. ^ Cassandras, C.G.; Lafortune, S. (2008). Introduction to Discrete Event Systems. Springer. ISBN 0387333320. 
  5. ^ Choset, H.M. (2005). Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementation. The MIT Press. ISBN 0262033275. 
  6. ^ Thrun, S.; Burgard, W.; Fox, D. (2005). Probabilistic Robotics. Cambridge: The MIT Press. ISBN 0262201623. 
  7. ^ Russell, S.J.; Norvig, P. (2002). Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0137903952. 
  8. ^ Lavalle, S.M. (2006). Planning Algorithms. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521862051. 
  9. ^ Forsyth, D.A.; Ponce, J. (2002). Computer Vision: A Modern Approach. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0130851981. 
  10. ^ Duda, R.O.; Hart, P.E.; Others, (2001). Pattern Classification. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0471056693. 
  11. ^ Corman, T.H.; Leiserson, C.E.; Rivest, R.L.; Stein C. (2001). Introduction to Algorithms. The MIT Press. ISBN 0262032937. 
  12. ^ Press, W.H.; Teukolsky, S.A.; Vetterling, W.T.; Flannery, B.P. (2007). Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521880688. 

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