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Zixiang Nie is a leading researcher at the intersection of multi-robot systems (MRS), wireless communications, and smart manufacturing for Industry 4.0. His work focuses on enabling flexible, resilient, and efficient production through reconfigurable multirobot systems in smart factories. Nie’s major contributions include pioneering hypergraphical real-time multirobot task allocation, which addresses the complex coordination challenges of mass customizing individualized products. He has also advanced social-learning coordination algorithms that allow heterogeneous robot teams to maintain resilient production despite accuracy degradation, and developed predictive path coordination for collaborative transportation robots. His research uniquely integrates 6G mobile communications with multi-robot systems, treating the smart factory as a special-purpose wireless network to support dynamic task assignments and real-time adjustments. With his most-cited paper garnering 36 citations, Nie’s work is foundational for the next generation of agile, decentralized manufacturing. His notable achievements include proposing socially networked multi-robot systems for time-sensitive multi-link access and distributed coordination via social learning, which together form a cohesive framework for scalable, adaptive, and resource-efficient smart factories.