Professional Activities

Program Chair

``ViTac 2021: Trends and Challenges in Visuo-Tactile Perception’’ Workshop in ICRA 2021. Co-orgnisers: Prof. Nathan Lepora (Univ Bristol \& Bristol Robotics Lab); Prof. Wenzhen Yuan (Carnegie Mellon University); Prof. Kaspar Althoefer (Queen Mary University of London); Prof. Gordon Cheng (Technische Universität München).
``ViTac 2020: Closing the Perception-Action Loop with Vision and Tactile Sensing’’ Workshop in ICRA 2020. Co-orgnisers: Prof. Nathan Lepora (Univ Bristol \& Bristol Robotics Lab); Prof. Wenzhen Yuan (Carnegie Mellon University); Prof. Gordon Cheng (Technische Universität München).
``ViTac: Integrating Vision and Touch for Multimodal and Cross-modal Perception’’ Workshop in ICRA 2019. Co-orgnisers: Prof. Nathan Lepora (Univ Bristol \& Bristol Robotics Lab); Prof. Uriel Martinez Hernandez (University of Bath); Prof. João Bimbo (Yale University); Prof. Huaping Liu (Tsinghua University)

Chenguang (Charlie) Yang, Shan Luo and Nathan F. Lepora, Special Issue ``Biomimetic Perception, Cognition, and Control: From Nature to Robots”, at the IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (RAM)
Shan Luo, Nathan F. Lepora, Uriel Martinez-Hernandez, Joao Bimbo and Huaping Liu, Special Issue ``ViTac: Integrating Vision and Touch for Multimodal and Cross-modal Perception’’ in Frontiers in Robotics and AI

UK Robot Manipulation Workshop
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Distinguished PC member)
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Conference

Intelligent Robotics Lab, University of Birmingham, 2021 (Online) video recording
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), Surrey University, 2021 (Online)
Sino-EU Conference on Intelligent Robots and Automation, 2021 (Online)
Panelist, ``Towards the Lab of the Future”, Smartlabs and Laboratory Informatics Congress, and PharmaTec Congress, 2020 (Online)
Podcast Automating Lab of the Future: Perspectives from Industry and Academia, 2020
Machine Learning and Optimisation Group, University of Manchester, 2019
``Simplication in the laboratory”} workshop, 2019.
Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford, 2019
Centre for Digital Built Britain, University of Cambridge, 2019
Summer School on Intelligent Sensing, London, 2019
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London
Emerging Learning Techniques for Robotics, Hamlyn Symposium Workshops, 2019
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL), Cambridge, USA, 2018
State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Tsinghua University, 2018
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), 2018
School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, 2018
School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK, 2017
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT, USA, 2016
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, UK, 2016