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).

Bio Sketch

Research Staff

Domi Gomez

Research Assistant

MSc degree in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark

Research interests: Design and development of robotic systems for real-world applications.

Dr Luiza Labazanova

Postdoctoral Fellow

PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Research interests: Human-robot interactions, artificial intelligence and haptics

Dr Samantha Lee

Lab Manager

PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Research interests: Tool manipulation, multi-robot systems, perceptual robots, image processing, and automation

Valen Qiu

Research Assistant

BEng in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Research interests: Robotic system developing, robot learning

Fonny Poan

Project Assistant

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong

Research interests: AR/VR/XR, veterinary healthcare, interactive media

Research Students

Bin Zhang

PhD student

Master degree in Control Science and Engineering from China Academy of Space Technology

Research interests: Multi-agent system, control theory, systems science and complexity

Fangyuan Wang

PhD student

Master degree in Software Engineering from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

Research interests: Reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems and decentralized machine learning

Gu Gong

PhD student

Master degree in Control Science and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology

Research interests: Bio-inspired machine vision and image processing

Shipeng Lyu

PhD student

Master degree in Electrical Science and Technology at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)

Research interests: Robot learning and perception

Hui Zhi

PhD student

MSc degree in Control Science and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology

Research interests: Multi-agent systems, robotics, control theory

Jinsong Wu

PhD student

MRes degree in Hamlyn Centre in Imperial College London

Research interests: Medical robotics, control systems, motion planning

Yuexuan Xu

PhD student

MSc degree in Control Science and Engineering from Hebei University of Technology

Research interests: Modeling and control of robots, visual servoing

Yuan Tian

PhD student

Master degree in Control Science and Engineering from Beihang University

Research interests: Adaptive control, motion planning

Ning Han

PhD student

MSc degree in Control Science and Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology

Research interests: Visual servoing, neural networks

Zeyu Zhou

PhD student

Master degree in Control Science and Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University

Research interests: Multi-agent system, machine learning

Wanli Liuchen

PhD student

MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Research interests: Robot navigation and machine learning

MSc Students

Alumni

Zhen Li

MSc student

Deep learning for robotic manipulation

Zhanguo Chunqiu

MSc student

Reinforcement learning for walking robots

Dr Kyle Huo

PhD student

Sep 2019 - Mar 2025

Robot learning, motion planning in manipulation

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

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.