{"id":212364,"date":"2024-10-29T14:35:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T18:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/?p=212364"},"modified":"2024-10-29T15:35:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T19:35:36","slug":"robotics-professor-received-ieee-technological-innovation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/2024\/10\/29\/robotics-professor-received-ieee-technological-innovation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotics Professor Received IEEE Technological Innovation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CSAM Faculty, <a href=\"\/~wangw\">Dr. Weitian Wang<\/a>, a robotics professor, received the 2024 IEEE R1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award for his contributions to collaborative robotics and human-robot interaction research as well as university, college, and pre-university education.<\/p>\n<p>IEEE R1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award is a prestigious award to recognize faculty members whose work is for distinguished development, advancement, and pursuit of the IEEE\u2019s technical objectives.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wang is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and the Founder Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raiserobot.com\/\">Montclair CRoSS Lab<\/a>. He has long-standing and extensive research experience in robotics, autonomous systems, human-robot interaction, and artificial intelligence. His research and education initiatives have been supported by multiple programs from different federal agencies and organizations such as NSF CAREER, CRII, MRI, and ERI grants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Weitian Wang was recognized for his research and education contributions to robotics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":212365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-recognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212367,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212364\/revisions\/212367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}