
Meet the Team
Principal
Investigator

David Navarro-Alarcon
Principal Investigator
David is a Roboticist, who occasionally (just from Mon–Sat) works as 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

Bowen Fan
Research Assistant
Sep 2021 - Aug 2024
Ant-inspired multi-robot systems

Tanja Luštrek
Research Intern
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
Machine learning, control of mobile robots

Dr Anqing Duan
Research Associate
Oct 2021 - Jul 2024
Robot learning and control

Fuji Hu
MSc Student
Sep 2022 - Jul 2024
Multi-sensor fusion for mobile robots

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

Domi Gomez
Research Assistant
Jan 2019 - Oct 2021
Computer vision for robotics

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

Dr Tiffany Yip
Postdoctoral Fellow
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.