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Xu Jiang is a prominent researcher specializing in real-time systems and robotic software frameworks, with a particular focus on the Robot Operating System (ROS) and its second-generation successor, ROS 2. His work addresses one of the most pressing challenges in modern robotics: ensuring that safety-critical robotic applications satisfy hard real-time constraints with formal, verifiable timing guarantees. Jiang's most influential contribution, "Response Time Analysis and Priority Assignment of Processing Chains on ROS2 Executors" (2020, 71 citations), established rigorous analytical foundations for modeling and analyzing timing behaviors in ROS 2 processing chains—work that has become a cornerstone reference in the field. He subsequently extended this research to multi-threaded executors (35 citations) and broader performance analysis frameworks, systematically tackling the complexities of computation delay, inter-process communication latency, message synchronization, and GPU resource management within robotic systems. His development of practical tools such as ROSGM, a GPU management framework for ROS 2, and RTeX, a timing-predictable multithreaded executor, demonstrates a commitment to bridging theoretical analysis with real-world applicability. With over 150 cumulative citations across a focused body of work, Jiang has established himself as a leading voice in real-time robotic software engineering, offering indispensable insights for researchers and engineers building dependable autonomous systems.