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Hengbo Tang is a robotics researcher specializing in sensor calibration and mobile robot navigation, with a particular focus on the precise alignment of cameras and odometric systems. His work addresses one of the fundamental challenges in robotics: accurately estimating the spatial relationships between sensors and robot platforms to enable reliable autonomous navigation. Tang's most significant contributions lie in developing automatic and simultaneous calibration frameworks for camera-odometry systems. His 2017 paper on fully automatic calibration, his most cited work with 20 citations, introduced a novel two-step approach that eliminates the need for manual initial guesses — a longstanding limitation of both batch optimization and Bayesian filter methods. This breakthrough was complemented by his work on simultaneous extrinsic-odometric calibration and, later, a comprehensive framework tackling intrinsic and extrinsic parameters together, published in 2020. A recurring theme throughout Tang's research is robustness and automation: reducing human intervention while improving calibration accuracy. His 2018 contribution on Constraint Gaussian Filtering with virtual measurements further refined online calibration pipelines. Collectively accumulating over 50 citations, Tang's body of work has meaningfully advanced the state of multi-sensor calibration, providing practical tools for researchers and engineers building more reliable robotic systems.