Funding And Awards
Ongoing Projects
- Principal Investigator, EPSRC New Investigator Award, ViTac: Visual-Tactile Synergy for Handling Flexible Materials , £536k, Apr 2021 to Apr 2024
- Principal Investigator (at King’s), EPSRC Innovate UK SMART Grant, ARRES PREVENT: The World-First Autonomous Road Repair Vehicle , £272k, Oct 2021 to Sep 2023
- Principal Investigator, Unilever funded project, £114k, Oct 2022 to Sep 2023
Completed Projects
- Principal Investigator, Unilever funded project, £71k, Oct 2021 to May 2022
- Knowledge Base Supervisor, “RAMP: Robot Arm Microplate Processing”, Innovate UK KTP project, with Astech Projects Ltd, £175k, Nov 2019-Oct 2021
- Principal Investigator, “Feel Nuclear Sites”, RAIN Hub Expansion project, £16.7k, Jun 2020 to Dec 2020
- Principal Investigator, “Aerial Swarm Robotics for Active Inspection of Bridges”, funded by CDBB, £73k, Oct 2018 to Jul 2019
- Co-Investigator, AHRC “Shaun the Sheep: Immersive Experience”, £1.1m, Mar 2020 to Jul 2022
- Co-Investigator, EPSRC “Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear (RAIN) Hub, £11.9m, Oct 2018 to Apr 2021
Capital equipment funding
- £162k, 2021, A test bed of the Factories of the Future at the smARTLab that I led at the Digital Innovation Facility, Univeristy of Liverpool
- £39k, 2018, Capital Equipment, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Liverpool, including one UR5 Robot Arm and one 3-finger Robotiq Gripper
Exchange/Travel Grants
- Principal Investigator, Royal Society International Exchanges 2020 Cost Share (NSFC), with Shandong University, £11.46k
- Co-Investigator, Royal Society International Exchanges Scheme, with Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), £12k
Awards
- Best Student Paper Award finalist, The 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
- Best Paper Award, The 18th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI 2022)
- 2nd Prize, Liverbot GMaster, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University & Liverpool University, RoboMaster 2021 University Championship South China Regional Competition
- Harold Boley Award for the Most Promising Paper, 5th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2021)
- EPSRC New Investigator Award, ranked the first in the panel, 2020
- Faculty Learning & Teaching and Student Experience Award, University of Liverpool, 2020
- 3rd Prize, RoboMaster 2019 International Regional Competition, GMaster, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University & University of Liverpool, RoboMaster 2019 International Regional Competition
- Distinguished Program Committee member, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2019
- BCS Academy New Appointments Grant Scheme Award 2018
