Lawson Wong
Assistant Professor

Education
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biography
Lawson L.S. Wong is an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.
Wong's research focuses on learning, representing, and estimating knowledge about the world that an autonomous robot may find useful. Prior to Northeastern, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University. He has received a Siebel Fellowship, AAAI Robotics Student Fellowship, and Croucher Foundation Fellowship for Postdoctoral Research.
Labs and groups
Recent publications
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[TEST-FEB13]-Snake Robot with Tactile Perception Navigates on Large-scale Challenging Terrain
Citation: Shuo Jiang, Adarsh Salagame, Alireza Ramezani, Lawson L. S. Wong. (2024). Snake Robot with Tactile Perception Navigates on Large-scale Challenging Terrain ICRA, 5090-5096. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611384 -
[TEST-FEB13]-Robot Navigation in Unseen Environments using Coarse Maps
Citation: Chengguang Xu, Christopher Amato, Lawson L. S. Wong. (2024). Robot Navigation in Unseen Environments using Coarse Maps ICRA, 2932-2938. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611256 -
[TEST-FEB13]-A Hierarchical Framework for Robot Safety using Whole-body Tactile Sensors
Citation: Shuo Jiang, Lawson L. S. Wong. (2024). A Hierarchical Framework for Robot Safety using Whole-body Tactile Sensors ICRA, 8021-8028. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610834