About Me
Roboticist, Entrepreneur, and Enthusiast
I am the Co-Founder & CTO of Cornerstone Robotics Limited. Formerly, I was a Research Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering (MAE) and CUHK T Stone Robotics Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
Supported by the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, I received my Ph.D. degree in the MAE department at CUHK, advised by Prof. Yun-hui Liu in July 2017, and then I served as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the MAE department at CUHK for half a year. During the last two years of my Ph.D. study, I was working with Prof. Peter Kazanzides and Prof. Russell H. Taylor as a visiting student at Johns Hopkins University in the Laboratory for Computational Sensing + Robotics. Prior to my Ph.D studies, I received B.E. degree at Beihang University, China.
My research interests are vision-based soft object manipulation, vision-based surgical instruments/systems tracking, calibration, control, and developments of robotic surgical systems, with emphasis on both scientific and engineering aspects.
You can find the detailed information about me in my Curriculum Vita and some technique blog posts in this LINK.
Education
- Ph.D. Degree, Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, Aug. 2013 ~ Jul. 2017
- Visiting Ph.D. Student, Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, US, Jan. 2016 ~ Apr. 2017
- B.E. Degree, Quality and Reliability Engineering, Beihang University, China, Sep. 2009 ~ Jul. 2013
Professional Experience
Academic Service
- Associate Editor of 2019 IEEE/RSJ IROS
- Reviewer of Journals and Conferences:
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics
- IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
- Annals of Biomedical Engineering
- Robotica
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2019, 2020
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2018, 2019, 2020
Grant
- Image-guided Automatic Robotic Surgery (Theme-based Research Scheme 2018/19, Co-Investigator, Total Research Funding: HK$47.341 millions equivalent to US$6.03 millions)
Examinership
- MPhil. Thesis Defense entitled “Development of Portable and Convenient to Use Cable Robot System” in July 2019
- MPhil. Thesis Defense entitled “Ray-based Interference Free Workspace Analysis and Path Planning for Cable-Driven Robots” in January 2019
- Ph.D. Thesis Defense entitled “Proprioception-Aided Visual State Estimation for Mobile Robots” in April 2019
Teaching
- MAEG 2020 Engineering Mechanics (Fall 2018, Enrollment: 98)
Teaching Assistance
- ENGG5402 Advanced Robotics (Spring 2015)
- ENGG1100 Introduction to Engineering Design (Fall 2014)
- MAEG1010 Introduction to Robot Design (Spring 2014)
- ENGG1100 Introduction to Engineering Design (Fall 2013)
Research Assistance
- Vision-based Calibration of Robot-Assisted MIS System (GRF-15)
- Development of a Robotic System for Nasal Surgery (ITF-14)
- Assistive Surgical Robots (CRF-13)
- A Robotic Assistant for Manipulating Uterus in Hysterectomy (ITF-12)