Academic & Institutional Service
Institutional administration, editorial appointments, peer review, grant and fellowship assessment, and doctoral examinations.
Institutional administration and panels
Female Academic Network, Imperial Bioengineering: Coordinator Year Abroad / Undergraduate Exchange Programme, Imperial Bioengineering: Coordinator | AI Research Fellowships; MedTechOne Proof of Concept Competition; MRC Doctoral Training Programme selection: Panel Member Academic recruitment; undergraduate admissions; postgraduate assessment: Panel, interview & examination service |
Editorial appointments and peer review
Editorial roles Cyborg and Bionic Systems: Young Editor (2023–present) Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Editorial Board Member (2022–present) Frontiers in Neurorobotics: Editorial Board Member (2021–present) Frontiers in Neuroscience: Neuroprosthetics: Editorial Board Member (2021–present) Embodied AI and Robotics for Future Scientific Discovery: Guest Editor (2026) Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Intelligent Micro-Robotics for Biomedical Applications: Topic Editor (2023–present) | Journal reviewing Nature Machine Intelligence · Advanced Materials · Advanced Intelligent Systems · Communications Physics · Communications Engineering · IEEE Transactions on Robotics · IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering · IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering · IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · Robotics and Autonomous Systems · Information Fusion · Swarm Intelligence Conference reviewing ICRA · IROS · CoRL · RO-MAN · ICARM · MARSS |
Independent assessment
Grant and fellowship assessment Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Peer Review College: Member (2022–present) EPSRC Standard Grants: Reviewer UKRI Strategic Infrastructure; UK–Japan joint funding calls: Reviewer UKRI/STFC AI Research Resource Innovator opportunities: Reviewer Research Foundation Flanders: Fellowship Reviewer (2025–2026) la Caixa INPhINIT Fellowships: Reviewer (2023–2025) TERRINet: Reviewer (2018–2020) | Doctoral examinations FEMTO-ST: Doctoral Examiner (2026) Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Doctoral Examiner (2025) Cardiff University: Doctoral Examiner (2024) University of Bristol: Doctoral Examiner (2023) Technical University of Košice: Midterm Doctoral Defence Examiner (2022) Examiner nominations · not completed examinations The University of Hong Kong: External Examiner (2026) [Nominated] King’s College London: External Examiner (2026) [Nominated] |
Sources and scope
This page documents contributions and appointments. Teaching records and educational resources are in Teaching; essays and reflections are in Blogs. Proposals, forthcoming appointments and examiner nominations retain their stated status.
Formal roles are based on the academic record supplied by Dandan Zhang (reviewed 30 October 2026), with original organiser, institutional and professional sources where available. Forthcoming conference appointments, proposals and examiner nominations are identified by status. Reviewer details do not disclose confidential assignments.
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