Biography

Dr. Yi Zhou is a Professor at School of Robotics, Hunan University (HNU). He received his B.Sc. degree in Aircraft Manufacturing and Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), China in 2012. He obtained his PhD from the Research School of Engineering at the Australian National University (ANU) at 2019. He was awarded the NCCR Fellowship Award for his research on event based vision in 2017 by the Swiss National Science Foundation through the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics. He directed the SLAM group at Motovis (Shanghai) Ltd. from 2018 to 2019. He was an postdoc research fellow at the robotic institute, HKUST from 2019 to 2021, where he led the research on neuromorphic event-based perception and navigation. His research interests include Visual Odometry/SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), geometry problems in computer vision and dynamic vision sensors.