Jian Zhang

Jian Zhang leads robotics research at Meta after a decade at Apple, where he headed robotics research in its AI and machine learning group. His earlier work includes teaching at Purdue and research at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.

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Based in: Saratoga

Apple

Aug 2015 — Jul 2025

Head of Robotics Research, AIML

Purdue University

2015 — Dec 2015

Lecturer

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

May 2014 — Aug 2014

Research Intern

Purdue University

PhD

University of Washington

Zhejiang University

Bachelor's studies

Products & media

arxiv.org

ELEGNT: expressive motion for a lamp-like robot

Jian Zhang, Yuhan Hu, Peide Huang and Mouli Sivapurapu study how expressive movements affect interaction with a lamp-like robot. Their paper explains the design framework and compares functional and expressive behavior across six task scenarios.

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Jian Zhang

Meta

Apple

Purdue University

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Purdue University

University of Washington

Zhejiang University

Products & media

ELEGNT: expressive motion for a lamp-like robot

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