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Dr Dandan Zhang
ROBOTICS · AI · EDUCATION
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
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Helping Students Become Independent Researchers
What should happen when a student asks for an experiment to be fixed? A practical account of clarifying the problem, choosing an informative test and giving the student's reasoning a greater role in supervision.
Nov 2
Imperial Magazine: discussing the promise and challenges of AGI
In Imperial Magazine's Stargazing feature, Dandan Zhang discusses how AI could support scientific discovery, and why data efficiency, explainability and dependable deployment still matter.
Nov 1
BMVA 2026 keynote on physically grounded embodied intelligence
Dandan Zhang's BMVA keynote connects multimodal perception, physical interaction and adaptive robotics with dependable real-world AI. Includes the symposium programme and links to recorded talks.
Nov 1
IROS 2026: Physical World Models for Scaling Embodied AI
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.
Nov 1
Finding Our Inner Compass in the Age of AI
When AI changes what we can do, how do we hold on to what matters? Dandan Zhang reflects on curiosity, identity, achievement and finding a sense of purpose beyond performance.
Oct 26
The Cost of Being Right: When Should We Challenge Unfair Criticism?
On professional judgement, the limits of evidence, and learning when to defend ourselves and when to move on.
Oct 19
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