Dr. Ronghuai Qi is currently a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Dynamics, Control, and Robotics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Prior to joining UNLV, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher (Advisor: Prof. Jaydev P. Desai) in the Medical Robotics and Automation (RoboMed) Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. He earned his Ph.D. degree (Advisors: Prof. Amir Khajepour and Prof. William Melek) in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo (UW), ON, Canada, in 2019. From 2019 to 2020, he worked as a Research Associate with the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics at UW. From 2011 to 2012, he was a Research Assistant (Advisor: Prof. Yangsheng Xu) in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before joining UW, he also worked in industrial R&D for several years in Hong Kong, serving as a Senior Robot Control Engineer, Project Manager, and Vice Director. Dr. Qi has 10+ years of hands-on experience (both academia and industry) in the design, modeling, and control of multi-scale robots and complex mechatronic systems. His interdisciplinary works have been published in highly prestigious journals and conferences, such as T-RO, IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Syst., Control Eng. Pract., Rob. Auton. Syst., T-MRB, R-AL, ICRA, and IROS. He was a Session Co-Chair of IROS 2023 and received various awards, such as the Best Application Paper Award at CableCon 2023, UW graduate scholarships (2016, 2019), and the 1st place scholarship (1/60) at the University of Science and Technology of China (2007). His main research interests include: 1) robotics, intelligent systems, and artificial intelligence; 2) novel mechatronic systems design; 3) system modeling, optimization, state estimation, control, and machine learning.

The Robotics and Healthcare Systems Lab at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), invites highly motivated Ph.D./M.S. students to join us in Fall 2024 (two Ph.D. positions filled) Spring/Fall 2025. We encourage candidates interested in the following areas to apply:

- Medical/surgical/soft robotics

- Robot-assisted rehabilitation

- Human-robot interaction

- Design, modeling, control, motion planning, image guidance, and visual servoing of robotic systems

If you are interested in joining us, please send your CV, including your research interests and experiences, GPA(s), test scores, and publications, to ronghuai.qi@unlv.edu.

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