Curriculum vitae
Xincheng Li
Postdoctoral Scholar · University of South Florida
xincheng@usf.edu · GitHub · LinkedIn
Selected academic record · September 2026. This page is formatted for printing or saving as PDF from your browser.
Research appointment
Postdoctoral Scholar
University of South Florida
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Working with Professor Udit Halder
Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Advisor: Professor P. S. Krishnaprasad
Dissertation: Symmetry and Motion: Geometric Control of Human Agents
Research interests
Geometric and optimal control; multi-agent coordination; human–robot interaction; equi-affine models of human motion; soft robotic grasping.
Selected publications
Journal article
On Feedback Speed Control for a Planar Tracking
IEEE Control Systems Letters
Speed regulation for leader–follower formations, with stability analysis and mobile-robot experiments.
BibTeX for On Feedback Speed Control for a Planar Tracking
@article{li2026feedback,
title={On Feedback Speed Control for a Planar Tracking},
author={Li, Xincheng and Liu, Tengyue and Halder, Udit},
journal={IEEE Control Systems Letters},
year={2026},
doi={10.1109/LCSYS.2026.3708578}
}
Accepted conference paper
Kinematics of continuum planar grasping
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), accepted
A geometric framework for shaping a soft continuum arm around an object and assessing grasp quality.
BibTeX for Kinematics of continuum planar grasping
@misc{halder2026kinematics,
title={Kinematics of continuum planar grasping},
author={Halder, Udit and Echeverria Zambrano, Nicolas and Li, Xincheng},
year={2026},
eprint={2604.09800},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.RO},
note={Accepted at IEEE CDC 2026},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09800}
}
Doctoral dissertation
Symmetry and Motion: Geometric Control of Human Agents
University of Maryland, College Park
Equi-affine geometry and optimal control for modeling human movement and coordinating interacting agents.
BibTeX for Symmetry and Motion: Geometric Control of Human Agents
@phdthesis{li2025symmetry,
title={Symmetry and Motion: Geometric Control of Human Agents},
author={Li, Xincheng},
school={University of Maryland, College Park},
year={2025},
doi={10.13016/rglm-vbqv}
}
Selected presentation
Geometry and Control for Human-Robot Interaction
Maryland Robotics Center Research Symposium · May 25, 2023
Symposium program ↗Software
Diffusion visualization
A PyTorch implementation and visualization of denoising diffusion in two dimensions.
Source code ↗