Meet the Team
Principal
Investigator
Dr David Navarro-Alarcon
Principal Investigator
David is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his PhD degree in 2014 from The Chinese University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Prof Yun-hui Liu. David is a Senior Member of the IEEE and serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).
Research Students
Research Staff
MSc Students
Alumni
Dr Zoë Ma
PhD student
Jun 2018 - Jan 2024
Task Planning for Robotic Manipulation
Dr Xiaodong Shao
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mar 2023 - Aug 2023
Control theory applied to mobile robotics
Hongpeng Chen
MSc student
Sep 2021 - Jul 2023
Robotic defect inspection
Dr Jose G. Romero
Visiting Lecturer
Aug 2022 - June 2023
Control theory for multi-agent systems
Dr Celia Saghour
Visiting PhD student
Oct 2023 - April 2023
Model-based methods for soft object manipulation
Dr Jeffery Zhou
PhD student
Sep 2019 - Oct 2022
Latent space methods for robot manipulation
Frank Zhang
MSc student
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
3D vision-thermal fusion for robotics
Luyin Hu
MPhil student
Sep 2019 - Jun 2022
Thermal servoing, sensor-based control
Dr Muhammed Muddassir
PhD student
Sep 2018 - May 2022
Vision-based manipulation, dermatology robots
Dr Maria Victorova
PhD student
Sep 2017 - Feb 2022
Ultrasound-guided robotics, machine learning
Dr Omar Zahra
PhD student
Jan 2018 - Nov 2021
Neurorobotics, SNN-based control, sensorimotor models
Zeyu Wu
MSc student
Sep 2019 - Jul 2021
Bio-inspired mechanisms, soft robotic hands
Maggie Xu
Research Assistant
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
Motion planning for manipulators
Rick Peng
Research Assistant
July 2019 - June 2020
Vision-based planning for robotic welding
Dr "Big Tom" Qi
Visiting PhD student
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Robotic manipulation of cables
Dr Jihong Zhu
Visiting PhD student
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
Visual servo control of deformable objects
Domi Gomez
Research Assistant
Jan 2019 - Oct 2021
Computer vision for robotics
Dr Tiffany Yip
PostDoc
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
3D modelling of linear deformable objects
Dr Christian Trejo
Visiting PhD student
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Control of continuum soft manipulators
Man-kiu Chow
Research Assistant
Aug 2017 - Feb 2018
Mechanical design of medical robots.