Ziyang Hong (洪子扬), PhD

Bio

I am currently a researcher from School of Data Science (SDS), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen). I am also part of the The Laboratory for Intelligent Autonomous Systems.

I am interested in Mobile Robotics, State Estimation，Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, Autonomous Driving, Robot Learning, Computer Vision, Radar-based Perception, Underwater Robotics.

I am taking Master of Philosophy (MPhil) student in 2026 Fall who are interested in working on underwater robotics.

Education

PhD, Heriot-Watt University, UK, 2023
MSc, Heriot-Watt University, UK, 2018
BSc, Shantou University, 2016

Awards

Won first place in the millimeter wave radar positioning competition held by ICRA Radar in Robotics, the top robotics conference in 2024. (link: https://sites.google.com/view/radar-robotics/competition)

Selected Publications

1. Ziyang Hong, Yvan Petillot, Sen Wang, “Radarslam: Radar based large-scale slam in all weathers”

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.

2. Ziyang Hong, Yvan Petillot, Andrew Wallace, Sen Wang, “RadarSLAM: A robust simultaneous localization and mapping system for all weather conditions”, The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2022.

3. Ziyang Hong, Yvan Petillot, Kaicheng Zhang, Shida Xu, Sen Wang, “Large-Scale Radar Localization using Online Public Maps”, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.

4. Can Dong*, Ziyang Hong* (equal contribution), Siru Li, Liang Hu, Huijun Gao. “Augmenting Vision with Radar for All-weather Geo-localization without a Prior HD Map” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024.

5. Kaicheng Zhang, Ziyang Hong, Shida Xu, Sen Wang, “CURL: Continuous, Ultra-compact Representation for LiDAR”, Robotics: Science and Systems, 2022.

6. Shida Xu, Jonatan Scharff Willners, Ziyang Hong, Kaicheng Zhang, Yvan Petillot, Sen Wang, “Observability-Aware Active Extrinsic Calibration of Multiple Sensors”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.