Dr. Xingrui Wang joined the Robotic Materials Department as a postdoctral researcher in 2020. His research majorly focused on understanding embodied intelligence in soft systems and replicating biological designs into robots to achieve similar functionality. 

Xingrui recieved his Ph.D. in Science from Tongji University in 2020. During 2017 - 2019, he worked as a visiting Ph.D. student at University of Colorado at Boulder. Xingrui also recieved his B.E. in Jet Propulsion Engineering from Beihang University in 2014.