Fangqiang was a PhD student with us from 2021-2025. His research focuses on developing robust and privacy-aware perception systems for physical AI, leveraging modalities such as mmWave radar and thermal imaging to handle adverse weather, occlusion, and illumination challenges. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT. His work has been published in leading venues including NeurIPS, CVPR, ECCV, ICRA, and SenSys. Fangqiang was selected an RSS Pioneers 2025 (competitive early-career recognition from the robotics community).