Lab News Update:

• [2026 Jan] Welcome Yitao JIANG, Yiou HUANG to our team as a Ph.D. student, Haihong SHI and Wenjie SHEN as M.Phil. student.

• [2026 Aug] Congrats to Ph.D. graduate Cheng QIAN's paper "Hierarchical Semantic Protocol Graph for Autonomous Thyroid Ultrasound Scanning" selected as a finalist for the Best Conference Paper at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics.

• [2026 Aug] Congrats to Ph.D. graduate Dr. Wenyu ZHAO's paper "A Triboelectric Airflow Field Sensor Enables Cross-scale Multi-parameter Sensing in Meter-scale Flapping-wing Aircrafts" published at Science Advances, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aee7066. 

• [2026 Feb] Congrats to Ph.D. candidate Yingtian XU's paper "Force-Centric Bidirectional Cross-Domain Interpretation Between Soft-Body Simulation and Piezoresistive E-Skin" published at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2026.3666454.

• [2026 Jan] Welcome Qingpeng ZHOU to our team as a Ph.D. student.

• [2025 Dec] I was invited to give a talk at the 第三届前沿科学交叉学科IFFS论坛 in Shenzhen.  

• [2025 Aug] Welcome Haihong SHI, Yanhong WU to our team as visiting students.

• [2025 June] Three papers accepted and presented at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems, IROS 2025. Congrats to Cheng QIAN, Chenwei WANG, Yingtian XU, and Guanglin JI. 

• [2025 June] I was invited as one of the speakers at the Workshop "Embodied Intelligence for Medical Robotics: Learning, Adaption, and Interaction" at IROS 2025.

• [2025 June] Congrats to Ph.D. graduate Dr. Guanglin JI's paper "Synergizing Reinforcement Learning and Classic Control: Optimized Policy Search for Continuum Robots" accepted by IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM 2025.

• [2025 May] Congrats to Ph.D. graduate Dr. Qian GAO's paper "Dynamic Hysteresis Compensation for Tendon-Sheath Mechanism in Flexible Surgical Robots without Distal Perception" accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 

• [2025 May] Congrats to M.Phil. student Mr. Ziqiao LIN's paper "Entrospect: Information-Theoretic Self-Reflection Elicits Better Response Refinement of Small Language Models" accepted by the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on ACL Findings 2025.

• [2025 Feb] Congrats to Ph.D. graduate Dr. Xingchao WANG's paper "Design and Analysis of a Closed-Loop Emotion Regulation System Based on Multimodal Affective Computing and Emotional Markov Chain" accepted by IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, Cybernetics: Systems. 

• [2025 Feb] Congrats to Mr. Guanglin JI's paper "Efficient Real2Sim2Real of Continuum Robots Using Deep Reinforcement Learning With Koopman Operator" accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

Last updated Jan 2026