Our Team

This page introduces PhD projects & RA projects.

PhD Candidates

Wen Fan

PhD student, 2022

Research Assistant, 2022

Main Supervisor:

Dr Dandan Zhang

Co-Supervisors:

Prof Weiru Liu

Prof Nathan Lepora

Research Interest:

Deep learning, Robot Learning, XAI

(12/2022-12/2026)
XAI for Robot Learning with Vision and Tactile Fusion

Xiaoqing Guo

PhD student, 2022

Main Supervisor:

Dr Dandan Zhang

Co-Supervisors:

Prof Nathan Lepora

Research Interest:

Tactile Robotics,

Robotic Hand Design

(09/2022-09/2026)
Haptic Rendering for Contact-Rich Manipulation with Bilateral Teleoperation

PhD Scholarship Information

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Yijiong Lin

PhD student, 2020

Main Supervisor:

Prof Nathan Lepora

Co-Supervisors:

Dr Dandan Zhang

Research Interest:

Reinforcement Learning

(01/2021-01/2025)

Reinforcement Learning for Bimanual Operation with Tactile Sensors

Yiwei Shi

PhD student, 2022

Main Supervisor:

Prof Weiru Liu

Co-Supervisors:

Dr Dandan Zhang

Research Interest:

Reinforcement Learning

(09/2022-09/2026)

XAI for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Jialin Lin

Research Assistant, 2022

Main Supervisor:

Dr Dandan Zhang

Co-Supervisors:

Prof Weiru Liu

Research Interest:

Reinforcement Learning

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