About Me

I am a lecturer in robotics at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England. My research mainly focuses on robotic perception, tactile sensing, and robot tactile intelligence with LLMs.

I was a research associate at University of York from 2024 to 2025. I received my PhD degree from University of Liverpool, under the supervision of Dr. Shan Luo and Prof. Danushka Bollegala.

🔥 News

• 06/2026:  🎉🎉 PhD position available: Flexible Robotic Tools at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UWE.
• 06/2026:  🎉🎉 I have been awarded the NVIDIA Academic Grant.
• 11/2025:  🎉🎉 I will serve as a Session Chair for the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2025).
• 09/2025:  🎉🎉 I have been awarded the UWE New Starter Research Development Scheme.
• 09/2025:  🎉🎉 I will serve as a Young-career Editor for the Robot Learning from September 2025.
• 09/2025:  🎉🎉 Our paper titled “Learn from the Past: Language-conditioned Object Rearrangement with Large Language Models” has been accepted to PRICAI 2025!
• 08/2025:  🎉🎉 Our paper titled “BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages” was awarded the Best Resource Paper Award at ACL 2025, congratulations to Nedjma and the team!
• 08/2025:  🎉🎉 Our paper titled “Wireless Tactile Sensor with Embedded Neural Network for Multifunctional Contact Detection” was awarded the Best Application Paper Award at ICAC 2025, congratulations to Zhenyu and the team!
• 07/2025:  🎉🎉 I will join the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England as a lecturer in robotics.
• 06/2023:  🎉🎉 Our paper Learn from Incomplete Tactile Data: Tactile Representation Learning with Masked Autoencoders is accepted to IROS 2023.
• 02/2023:  🎉🎉 Our paper TouchRoller: A Rolling Optical Tactile Sensor for Rapid Assessment of Textures for Large Surface Areas is accepted to Sensors.
• 17/01/2023:  🎉🎉 Our paper Vis2Hap: Vision-based Haptic Rendering by Cross-modal Generation is accepted to ICRA 2023.

📝 Publications

Please check my Google Scholar for the latest publications.

👩‍🏫 Teaching

University of the West of England

• Lecturer, Robotic Control System, Engineering Experimentation, Engineering Practice (2025/2026)

University of Liverpool

• Teaching Assistant, Computer Vision (2019/2020)

💻 Professional Services

Young-Career Editor

• Robot Learning

Reviewer

• ICRA, IROS, RAL, T-ASE, TIP