Xin Tong
Associate Professor, School of Robotics and Automation
Nanjing University
Email: xintong (at) nju.edu.cn
Office: East 324, Nanyong Building
Address: 1520 Taihu Avenue, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Links: ORCID, Department website
Biography
I am currently an Associate Professor at the School of Robotics and Automation, Nanjing University, Suzhou Campus. Previously, I served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center and as a Research Associate in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. I received my B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2015, followed by a Ph.D. from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2020.
Research Interests
Robotic planning and control
Hybrid feedback control
Multi-agent systems
Network formation
Latest News
2025 Oct: I have received a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China to support my research on hybrid feedback control.
2025 Sep: I have received a grant from the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China to support my research on robotic obstacle avoidance.
2025 May: Our paper “Integrating In-Bore Navigation Frames with Continuum Robot for MRI-Guided Steerable Laser Ablation of Brain Tumor” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics.
2025 Jan: Our paper “A Low-Dimension, and Numerically Stable Transfer Matrix Method to Predict the Dynamics of Thin-Walled Beams with Rigid Bodies under Intricate Topologies” has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Solids and Structures.
2024 Oct: Our paper “Global Coordinated Stabilization of Multiple Simple Mechanical Control Systems on a Class of Lie Groups” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
2024 Oct: My personal website is online!