Runsheng Wang

I am a Ph.D. student at Columbia University, advised by Prof. Matei Ciocarlie in the ROAM Lab. My research focuses on robot learning, multimodal perception, human-robot interaction, and wearable robotics.

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Research

* indicates equal contribution

A stroke participant wearing the MyHand orthosis during real-time sEMG intent detection

ReactEMG Stroke: Healthy-to-Stroke Few-shot Adaptation for sEMG-Based Intent Detection

Runsheng Wang, Katelyn Lee, Xinyue Zhu, Lauren Winterbottom, Dawn M. Nilsen, Joel Stein, Matei Ciocarlie

International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob) 2026

arXiv Code & Dataset Project Website

Zeroshot low-latency control of a robotic hand via the MyHand orthosis

ReactEMG: Zero-Shot, Low-Latency Intent Detection via sEMG

Runsheng Wang*, Xinyue Zhu*, Ava Chen, Jingxi Xu, Lauren Winterbottom, Dawn M Nilsen, Joel Stein, Matei Ciocarlie

Preprint

arXiv Code & Dataset Project Website Video

Fabric Sensing of Intrinsic Hand Muscle Activity

Katelyn Lee, Runsheng Wang, Ava Chen, Lauren Winterbottom, Ho Man Colman Leung, Lisa Maria DiSalvo, Iris Xu, Jingxi Xu, Dawn M Nilsen, Joel Stein, Xia Zhou, Matei Ciocarlie

International Conference On Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) 2025

arXiv Poster

Prompt and ChatEMG-generated synthetic data on three stroke subjects

ChatEMG: Synthetic Data Generation to Control a Robotic Hand Orthosis for Stroke

Jingxi Xu*, Runsheng Wang*, Siqi Shang*, Ava Chen, Lauren Winterbottom, To-Liang Hsu, Wenxi Chen, Khondoker Ahmed, Pedro Leandro La Rotta, Xinyue Zhu, Dawn M. Nilsen, Joel Stein, Matei Ciocarlie

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2024

arXiv Code & Dataset Project Website Video

Microphone tactile array design and layering

An Investigation of Multi-feature Extraction and Super-resolution with Fast Microphone Arrays

Eric T Chang*, Runsheng Wang*, Peter Ballentine, Jingxi Xu, Trey Smith, Brian Coltin, Ioannis Kymissis, Matei Ciocarlie

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024

arXiv

Example cortical columns showing target assignment of Ai34-labeled synaptic puncta

Multidimensional Analysis of Cortical Interneuron Synaptic Features Reveals Underlying Synaptic Heterogeneity

Patrick D Dummer*, Dylan I Lee*, Sakib Hossain*, Runsheng Wang, Andre Evard, Gabriel Newman, Claire Ho, Casey M Schneider-Mizell, Vilas Menon, Edmund Au

Preprint

bioRxiv