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).

Brief Bio

Research Students

Zoë Ma

PhD student

Master degree in control science and engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology

Research interests: Robotics, machine intelligence, control systems, and biomimetics

Luiza Labazanova

PhD student

MSc degree in space and engineering systems in Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

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

Kyle Huo

PhD student

BSc degree in vehicle engineering from the South China University of Technology

Research interests: Robot learning, motion planning in manipulation, and 3D sensing

Samantha Lee

PhD student

BEng degree in mechanical engineering with a minor study in computing from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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

Bin Zhang

PhD student

Master degree in control science and engineering from China Academy of Space Technology

Research interests: Multi-agent system, control theory

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, 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

Celia Saghour

Visiting PhD student

Master degree in Mechanics and Interactive design from Polytech Montpellier

Research interests: Vision-based robotic control of soft objects

Research Staff

Domi Gomez

Research Assistant

MSc degree from Technical University of Denmark.

Research interests: Design of robotic systems and smart city automation.

Dr Anqing Duan

Research Associate

PhD degree from Italian Institute of Technology and Universita degli Studi di Genova.

Research interests: Robot learning and control

Dr Jose G. Romero

Visiting Lecturer

Ph.D. degree in Control Theory from the University of Paris-Sud XI, France.

Research interests: Nonlinear and adaptive control, stability analysis and the state estimation

Dr Xiaodong Shao

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. degree in navigation, guidance, and control from Beihang University, China.

Research interests: Nonlinear and adaptive control, robot motion control, fault-tolerant control

MSc Students

Bowen Fan

MSc student

BEng degree in mechanical engineering from Chang'an University

Research interests: Self-organising systems, and robot learning

Hongpeng Chen

MSc student

BEng degree in mechatronic engineering from Shanghai Maritime University

Researh interests: Computer vision for robotic manipulation

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