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Our Team
This page introduces PhD projects & RA projects.
PhD Candidates
Wen Fan
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PhD student, 2022
Research Assistant, 2022
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Main Supervisor:
Dr Dandan Zhang
Co-Supervisors:
Prof Weiru Liu
Prof Nathan Lepora
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Research Interest:
Deep learning, Robot Learning, XAI
(12/2022-12/2026)
XAI for Robot Learning with Vision and Tactile Fusion
Xiaoqing Guo
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PhD student, 2022
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Main Supervisor:
Dr Dandan Zhang
Co-Supervisors:
Prof Nathan Lepora
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Research Interest:
Tactile Robotics,
Robotic Hand Design
(09/2022-09/2026)
Haptic Rendering for Contact-Rich Manipulation with Bilateral Teleoperation
Yijiong Lin​
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PhD student, 2020
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Main Supervisor:
Prof Nathan Lepora
Co-Supervisors:
Dr Dandan Zhang
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Research Interest:
Reinforcement Learning
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(01/2021-01/2025)
Reinforcement Learning for Bimanual Operation with Tactile Sensors
Yiwei Shi​
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PhD student, 2022
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Main Supervisor:
Prof Weiru Liu
Co-Supervisors:
Dr Dandan Zhang
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Research Interest:
Reinforcement Learning
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(09/2022-09/2026)
XAI for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Jialin Lin​
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Research Assistant, 2022
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Main Supervisor:
Dr Dandan Zhang
Co-Supervisors:
Prof Weiru Liu
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Research Interest:
Reinforcement Learning
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Digital Health and Medical Robotics
Project List:
•A. Explainable AI for Intelligent Robotics
•B. Domain Adaptation for Robotic Manipulation
•C. Data-Efficient Robot Learning for Robotic Manipulation
•D. Continual Learning for Robotic Manipulation
•E. Sim-to-Real Transfer Learning for Robotic Manipulation
•F. Multi-modality Representation Learning for Contact-Rich Task
•G.Machine Learning Based Adaptive Human-Robot Shared Control
•H. Haptic Guidance for Dexterous Manipulation