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Chunhe Song is a leading researcher in the intersection of robotics, human-robot interaction (HRI), and cognitive ergonomics. His work primarily focuses on assessing and mitigating mental workload during complex human-robot collaborations, particularly in unstructured environments where direct perception is limited. Song’s major contributions include pioneering the use of heart rate variability (HRV) as a real-time metric for mental workload in HRI, with his foundational 2020 paper on this topic accumulating 22 citations. He has advanced this methodology by comparing different time-scale HRV signals, demonstrating how physiological monitoring can prevent accidents and improve operator health. Beyond cognitive assessment, Song has made significant strides in robotic optimization, developing deep reinforcement learning frameworks for integrated task sequencing and trajectory planning (2023, 7 citations) and proposing a sampling-based motion planning algorithm with a Metropolis acceptance criterion (2022, 6 citations) that improves upon the asymptotic optimality of RRT*. His research also extends to multi-robot systems, including collaborative SLAM for geospatial data collection and distributed source seeking via flocking. With a growing citation record and a portfolio spanning tactile perception, motion planning, and multi-agent coordination, Song is shaping safer, more efficient human-robot teams for real-world applications.