Current Positions
- Lecturer of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Professional History
- Since 04/2021: Lecturer of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
- 04/2018 – 03/2021: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield, UK
- 01/2017 – 03/2018: Research Associate, Postdoctoral Researcher, Heuristics and Diagnosis of Complex Systems (Heudiasyc), University of Technology of Compiègne, Compiègne, France
- 07/2015 – 12/2016: Deputy Director, United Laboratory of University of Science and Technology of China and E-THINK, Hefei, China
Academic History
- 09/2010 – 06/2015: PhD in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems, University of Science and Technology of China, China
- 09/2006 – 06/2010: Undergraduate Student with the Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Conference Co-Organization
- 2024: Chair of Robotic Learning - III, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- 2024: Technical Committee Member, 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM), Setif, Algeria, 18-23 November
- 2024: Technical Committee Member, 23rd UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), Belfast, UK, 02-04 September
- 2023: Technical Committee Member, 22nd UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), Birmingham, UK, 07-09 September
- 2022: Technical Committee Member, 21st UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), Sheffield, UK, 07-09 September
Workshop Co-Organization
- 2024: Organized AI & Robotics Ecosystem Workshop, North of England Robotics Innovation Centre (NERIC), University of Salford, 11 November
Community Service
Mentoring
- Reviewer of EPSRC Standard Research Grants
- Reviewer of UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) proposals
- Mementor (since 2020)
- Black in AI (since 2020)
- Deep Learning Indaba (since 2017)
Senior Roles
- 2024: Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on Advances in Human-Robot Collaboration, Applied Sciences
Program Committee
- 2024: UKCI
- 2023: UKCI
- 2022: UKCI
Reviewing
- 2024: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- 2023: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
- 2023: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- 2023: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)