ACES Lab Students Receive Two Awards at IEEE CASE 2026
We are delighted to share that two students from the ACES Lab earned top honors at the IEEE CASE 2026 Safety-Critical Robotics Workshop in Shenyang, China. Zuyi Guo (M.S., Fall 2026) and Xianjie Dai (Ph.D., Fall 2026), together with their collaborators, received both the Best Poster Award and the Best Presentation Award.
Zuyi’s research centers on risk perception and safety-critical decision-making for autonomous driving, including memory-based mechanisms that let a system keep improving its safety over time. Xianjie works on safe robot interaction driven by vision-language-action models, with a focus on closing the loop between a robot’s planning and its execution. Both students are supervised by Prof. Heye Huang, whose group also received a CVPR 2026 Best Paper Award earlier this year.
IEEE CASE 2026 – Safety-Critical Robotics Workshop (Workshop #4)
- Best Poster Award – “XMind: Risk-Aware Episodic Memory for Continually Improving Safety in Autonomous Driving,” led by Zuyi Guo
- Best Presentation Award – “CAPE-3D: Context-Adaptive Planned-to-Executed 3D World Models for Safer Robot Interaction,” led by Xianjie Dai
- Where – when – IEEE CASE 2026, Shenyang, China, August 17, 2026
Congratulations to Zuyi, Xianjie, and all their collaborators. We look forward to their continued work on safe and intelligent mobility at KAIST.
