People

PDRA

• Dr. Kun Wang, KC Wong Postdoctoral Fellow.

PhD Students

Main Supervisor

• Yongqiang Zhao, PhD student (2024-present), co-supervision with Dr. Emmanouil Spyrakos Papastavridis. Research topics: robot simulations, skill learning and tactile sensing.
• Zhiyuan Wu, PhD student (2024-present), co-supervision with Dr. Emmanouil Spyrakos Papastavridis. Research topics: multimodal perception, robot learning, and generative models.
• Yupeng Wang, PhD student (2024-present), co-supervision with Dr. Lukas Lindenroth. Research topics: medical robotics, robot designs, and tactile sensing.
• Yang Liu, PhD student (2024-present), co-supervision with Dr. Emmanouil Spyrakos Papastavridis. Research topics: computer vision, agent learning, and robot multimodal learning.
• Zhuo Chen, PhD student (2023-present), co-supervision with Dr. Emmanouil Spyrakos Papastavridis. Research topics: tactile sensing, transfer learning and robot grasping.
• Xuyang Zhang, PhD student (2023-present), co-supervision with Dr. Emmanouil Spyrakos Papastavridis. Research topics: tactile sensing, simulation and robot designs.
• Jiaqi Jiang, co-supervision with Dr. Thanh-Toan Do (2019-2024). Research topics: transparent object detection and grasping, robot vision and tactile sensing.

Visiting Students

• Tai Tuan Nguyen (2024-2025), from JAIST (Dr Van Anh Ho’s lab), Japan.
• Hengfei Zhao (2024-2025), from Tsinghua University, China.

Alumni

• Dr. Daniel Fernandes Gomes, was a PhD student at RPL, co-supervision with Dr Paolo Paoletti (2018-2024). Research topic: tactile sensing, simulation of tactile sensing. Now Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal.
• Mr. Ni Ou, visiting student at the RPL (2023-2024), Ph.D student at Beijing Institute of Technology, China.
• Dr. Jongmin Yu, was Research Fellow at RPL on the Innovate UK ARRES PREVENT project. Now Principal Researcher, at Research & Development, ProjectG.AI (South Korea); Research Fellow, University of Cambridge.
• Dr. Konstantinos (Kostas) Alexandridis, was a PhD student at RPL, co-supervision with Dr Anh Nguyen (2019-2024). Research topic: Long-tail object detection. Now Research Scientist at Huawei London Research Centre.
• Dr. Guanqun Cao, was a PhD student at RPL, co-supervision with Prof. Danuashka Bollegala, (2019 to 2023). Research topic: tactile sensing, generative models. Now Research Fellow, University of York.
• Mr. Aaron Butterworth, co-supervision with Prof. Andy Cooper, (2020-2023). Research topic: laboratory automation, visuo-tactile learning. Now Research Engineer, Dstl.
• Mr. Zixi Chen, intern at the lab, now Ph.D student at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA).
• Dr. Nathan (Zhenxi) Cui, on the EPSRC ViTac project.
• Dr. Leszek Pecyna, on the EPSRC ViTac project, now Advanced Research Engineer at Manufacturing Technology Centre, Liverpool.
• Dr. Benjamin Schnieders†
• Dr. Gregory Palmer, now a postdoc at the L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.
• Dr. James Butterworth
• Dr. Jacopo Castellini
• Miss Lauren Parker, on the CDBB project

†Sadly, in December 2018 Benjamin Schnieders passed away, right before he would start writing his dissertation. He published his work at venues like AAMAS, ECAI and IROS, and participated several times in the RoboCup@Work competition. We collected his work into one document and on June 2nd 2020 he successfully passed his posthumous PhD viva in Liverpool. Congratulations Benjamin, Dr. Schnieders, we are very proud of you. https://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~bsc/