Community & Event Leadership
Bringing researchers together through conference programmes, collaborative workshops and scientific community events.
Event highlights
Service event highlights
Five seminars and a concluding workshop connecting AI for Science with laboratory automation. Co-organised by Dandan Zhang, Lan Wei and Qiming Liu at Imperial College London, from November 2026.
The ECCV 2026 workshop brought together research on world models, robotics and safe deployment. Dandan Zhang co-organised the event and joined the panel on moving from synthesis towards real-world use.
The IROS 2026 workshop explored how physical experience can improve robot learning and world models. Invited talks, research presentations and a challenge addressed demonstrations, visuo-tactile learning, planning and evaluation.
A Hamlyn Symposium workshop on untethered micro- and nanorobotics for healthcare, covering actuation, navigation, control and AI-assisted analysis. Includes the programme, learning outcomes and organising team.
This Hamlyn Symposium workshop examined soft and hybrid robots for minimally invasive surgery, focusing on dexterity, surgeon–robot–tissue interaction and reduced tissue trauma.
A Bristol Robotics Laboratory workshop on human–robot interaction in unstructured and changing environments, bringing together tactile robotics, teleoperation and AI researchers to discuss current challenges and future directions.
PHASE 2022 brought academia and industry together in Bristol to examine autonomous systems with humans in or on the loop, across human factors, architecture, ethics, trust and robotics.
Co-Organiser and Area Chair for the workshop on cooperative intelligence for embodied AI.
End of event highlights
Conference and workshop appointments
IEEE ROBIO 2026 · Programme Co-Chair · Forthcoming, 16–20 December 2026. ECCV 2026 Safe World Models workshop · Co-Organiser, Co-Chair and Award Committee Member. IROS 2026 Physical World Models workshop · Co-Organiser. CVPR 2025 Cooperative Intelligence workshop · Co-Organiser and Area Chair. Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) workshop: Award Committee Member (2026) IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems (CBS): Publicity Chair (2025) IROS Medical Robots and Systems session: Session Chair (2025) | IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT): Award Committee Member, Presentation Track Co-Chair & Session Chair (2024) 4th UK Robot Manipulation Workshop: Co-Organiser (2023) Hamlyn Symposium Workshop on Untethered Micro- and Nanorobotics for Healthcare Applications: Co-Organiser (2023) Intelligent Microrobotics for Biomedical Engineering Workshop: Organiser (2022) Bristol Robotics Laboratory Human-Robot Interaction event: Organiser (2022) International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS): Programme Committee Member (2025–present) IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA): Associate Editor (2024) |
Proposed workshops
The following proposals remain under review and are separate from confirmed appointments.
ICRA Workshop on Trustworthy Robotics: Co-Organiser (2027) [Proposal under review]
ICLR Workshop on Scientific World Models: From Prediction to Intervention and Discovery: Co-Organiser (2027) [Proposal under review]
Comments