
Meet the Team
Principal
Investigator

Dr David Navarro-Alarcon
Principal Investigator
David is an Assistant 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 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 robotics, robotic hands, bionics and kinematics

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

Jiaming "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

Dr Tiffany Yip
PostDoc
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
3D modelling of linear deformable objects