Professional Activities

 Membership

•     2022: IEEE Senior Member

Awards

•     2025: The 1st Place of ICRA Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competitions (RGMC) - picking from clutter track

•     2024: The 1st Place of ICRA Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competitions (RGMC) - in-hand track and Most Elegant Solution

•     2024: Best Medical Robotics Paper Finalist of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

•     2023: T. J. Tarn Best Paper Finalist of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics

•     2023: The 2nd Place of ICRA Virtual Manipulation Challenge

•     2023: Best Paper Award of ICRA DOM Workshop

•     2022: The 3rd Prize at RoboMaster University Sim2Real Challenge

•     2018: T. J. Tarn Best Paper in Robotics of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics

•     2017: Best Application Paper Finalist of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

•     2017: Best Paper in Robotic Control of International Conference on Advanced Robotics

•     2013: Highly Commended Paper Award of IFToMM International Symposium on Robotics and Mechatronics

Invited Talks

•     Oct 2025:    IROS Workshop on Benchmarking via Competitions in Robotic Grasping and Manipulation

•     Oct 2024:    IROS Workshop on Benchmarking via Competitions in Robotic Grasping and Manipulation

•     Oct 2024:    IROS Workshop on Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects

•     Oct 2022:    IROS Workshop on Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects

•     May 2021:   ICRA Workshop on Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects

Conference Committee Members

•     2025: Award Chair of IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics (RCAR)

•     2024: Lead Organizer of ICRA Workshop on Human-Robot Co-manipulation

•     2024: Co-Chair of IEEE RAS Working Group on Deformable Object Manipulation

•     2023: Program Chair of IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics (RCAR)

•     2018: Award Committee Member of World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA)

  Editorship     

•     Senior Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL, since 2026) 

•     Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO, since 2025) 

•     Associate Editor of The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR, since 2024) 

•     Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE, since 2023, Best AE Award in 2026) 

•     Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL, 2022 - 2025, Outstanding AE Award in 2025) 

•     Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (RAM, 2019 - 2021)

•     Associate Editor of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA, 2019 - 2021)

•     Referee for National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

•     Referee for Research Grants Council of Hong Kong