Dr Liao WU

Contact

School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Faculty of Engineering, University of New South Wales

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Room 301C, Ainsworth Building J17

UNSW Sydney NSW 2052 Australia

Education Background

PhD in Mechanical Engineering                             

BS in Mechanical Engineering  

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Tsinghua University     

Tsinghua Univeristy           

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Sep 2008 - Jul 2013

Sep 2004 - Jul 2008

Academic Appointments

Senior Lecturer

Lecturer

Research Affiliate

Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow

Research Fellow 

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University of New South Wales

University of New South Wales

Australian Centre for Robotic Vision

Queensland University of Technology

National University of Singapore

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since Jul 2022

Jan 2019 - Jun 2022

Jan 2016 - Dec 2020

Jan 2016 - Dec 2018

Jan 2014 - Dec 2015

Research Interests        

Medical Robotics:

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Industrial Robotics:

Teaching

Coordinator and Lecturer

Lecturer

Coordinator and Lecturer

Coordinator and Lecturer

Guest Lecturer

Lecturer

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MTRN2500 Computing for Mechatronic Engineers

MTRN3100 Robot Design

MTRN3100 Robot Design

MTRN4110 Robot Design

MANF4150 Design of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

EGB339 Introduction to Robotics

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since Term 3, 2020

since Term 2, 2024

Term 2, 2023

Term 2, 2019-2022

since Term 1, 2022

Semester 2, 2018

Membership & Service

Program Coordinator

Member

Member

Associate Fellow      

Associate Editor

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Program Chair

Program Committee Member -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Journal Reviewer------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                                                        -------------------------------

Conference Reviewer

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since Jan 2022

since 2023

since 2016

since 2017

since 2023

since 2021

since 2020

Awards & Fellowships

2023

2023

2023

2023-2025

2021

2018

2017

2017

2016-2018

2015

2008

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2007

2006

2005

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UNSW Engineering GROW

Best Poster - IEEE ICRA Workshop on Force Sensing in Robotic Surgery

People's Choice for Best Poster - ACRA (Supervisor)

UNSW ITyreeE Inaugural PhD Top-Up Scholarship (Supervisor)

QUT Best PhD Thesis Nominee (Supervisor) 

QUT IHBI Early Career Researcher Development Scheme

Associate Fellowship of Higher Education Academy

QUT ECARD/VCRF Travel Fellowship

QUT Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship

ICIA 2015 Best Paper Finalist

Outstanding Graduate of Beijing

Excellent Graduate of Tsinghua University

Chinese National Encouragement Scholarship

Tsinghua Daimler-Chrysler Scholarship

Tsinghua Want-Want Scholarship 

Recruitments

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD with Dr Liao (Leo) Wu, please send a copy of PDF combining your CV, Transcripts, Representative Publications, and English Test Results to liao.wu@unsw.edu.au.