Professional Activities
Program Chair
Guest Editor
- Leading Guest Editor, Special Issue on Tactile Robotics, IEEE Transaction on Robotics (Prestigious journal in the field of Robotics), receiving a record 100+ submissions in T-RO’s history.
- 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
Associate Editor for Journals
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Associate Editor / Area Chair for Conferences
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026.
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026.
- Robotics: Science and Systems
Chairing Sessions at Conferences
- ``Tactile Sensing” session at IROS 2020;
- ``Learning, Mapping and Planning” session at TAROS 2020.
Program Committee
- 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
(Selected) Invited talks
- Keynote talk, UK Manipulation Workshop 2026, 7th January 2026
- Keynote talk, BMVC 2025 Workshop “Multisensory Intelligence for Human Perception”, 27th November 2025
- Keynote talk, IROS 2025 Workshop “RoDGE: Robotic Data Generation and Evaluation – Bridging Simulation and Real-World Deployment”, 24th October 2025
- Keynote talk, IROS 2025 Workshop “Bio-Inspired Robotic Perception and Control Bridging Centralized and Decentralized Intelligence”, 24th October 2025
- Keynote talk, IROS 2025 Workshop “Tactile Sensing Toward Robot Dexterity and Intelligence”, 20th October 2025
- Keynote talk: “Tactile Intelligence in Robotics: Sensing and Interaction Across Scales”, Trustworthy Embodied Intelligence in Healthcare Symposium, Imperial-X, 17th July 2025
- Keynote talk: “Tactile Sensing in a Multimodal Embodied Intelligence Era”, EPSRC UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems (UK-RAS) Network ECR Webinar: Online Pitching Event – BioInspired Robotics, 11th July 2025
- Invited talk: “Visual-tactile sensing for soft tissue examination”, Advanced tissue examination for diagnostics in surgical soft robotics, Hamlyn Symposium, 24th June 2025
- Invited talk, University of York, York, UK, 2025
- Panelist, Engineering Sustainability: Where to next? King’s College London, 2025
- Main organiser, Girls Robotics Challenge 2025, King’s College London
- Invited talk, IROS 2024 Workshop on “Collecting, Managing and Utilizing Data through Embodied Robots”, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2024
- Main organiser, Girls into Electronics 2024, King’s College London
- Outreach event, Touch the AI at King’s Festival in Artificial Intelligence
- Main organiser, Annual Engineering for Schools Lecture: Changing the world with engineering at King’s College London
- Outreach event, Touch the AI as part of the ExpeRience: Sensational Senses at The Royal Institution
- Invited talk, Pharma Lab Innovation & Automation WorX, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2024
- Invited talk, 2024 London Summer School in Robotics and AI
- Invited talk, RSS 2024 Workshop “Noosphere: Tactile Sensing for General Purpose Robot Learning”, 2024
- Invited talk, the 5th UK Manipulation Workshop, University of Oxford, 2024
- Invited talk, the 4th International Conference on Embodied Intelligence, 2024
- Invited talk, University College London, 2023
- Invited talk, University of Manchester, 2023
- Invited talk, the 4th UK Manipulation Workshop, University of Bristol, 2023
- Invited talk, RSS 2023 Workshop “Interdisciplinary Exploration of Generalizable Manipulation Policy Learning: Paradigms and Debates”, Korea, 2023
- Invited talk, Tsinghua University, 2023
- Keynote, Pharma Automation & Robotics 2023 conference, London
- The 4th UK Robot Manipulation Workshop, 2023
- Keynote, French research group in Robotics (GdR) days, 2022
- Keynote, International Humanoid Robotics Forum, 2022
- TAMS group, University of Hamburg, 2022.
- Robotics group, Shanghai University.
- Keynote at the UK-China Symposium on Advanced Manufacturing, 2021.
- 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
Reviewer
- Science
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics
- The International Journal of Robotics Research
- Robotics and Autonomous Systems
- Nature Machine Intelligence
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- Artificial Intelligence Journal
- Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
- Advanced Robotics
- IEEE Sensors Journal
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
- International Journal of Humanoid Robotics
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
- International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)
