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Research Interest
Research Interest
Underwater Robotics, Mobile Robotics, State Estimation, SLAM, Robot Learning, Computer Vision, Radar-based Perception, underwater acoustics.
Recruitment
Recruitment
I am looking for self-motivated MSc and PhD students to join my lab to work on underwater robotics since 2026. Applicants should have a background in a relevant discipline (e.g., automation, robotics, mechanical engineering, computer science, optical imaging, underwater acoustics).
Bio
Bio
I am currently an Associate Professor from Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen. Here at HIT-Shenzhen, I lead the Deep Vanguard Laboratory.
I was previously a Research Assistant Professor (2024-2025) at the School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), part of the The Laboratory for Intelligent Autonomous Systems.
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.
Research highlights
Research highlights
Contact
Contact
email: hongzy@hit.edu.cn
email: hongzy@hit.edu.cn
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