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Xingguang Peng is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of swarm robotics, collective behavior, and active matter physics, whose work bridges biological inspiration with cutting-edge experimental and computational approaches. His research spans two interconnected domains: understanding the fundamental principles governing collective motion in natural and artificial systems, and engineering intelligent swarm robotic platforms capable of complex, self-organized tasks. Peng's most celebrated contribution—his 2024 study on emergent chirality and hyperuniformity in nonreciprocal active mixtures (37 citations)—demonstrates how asymmetric inter-species interactions drive rich collective phenomena, offering profound insights into non-equilibrium physics. Complementing this, his experimental investigation of the criticality hypothesis using programmable Vicsek-like robot swarms (18 citations) provided rare empirical grounding for a long-theorized principle in biological collective intelligence. On the applied side, Peng has developed sophisticated swarm robotics frameworks for multi-target trapping, herding, and pattern formation, drawing inspiration from gene regulatory networks and vision-based attention mechanisms. His adaptive density-based interaction strategies demonstrate remarkable versatility across heterogeneous, real-world scenarios. With over 150 cumulative citations and multiple high-impact publications in 2024 alone, Peng's work is rapidly shaping how researchers understand and harness the emergent power of collective systems.