My group focuses on the engineering applications of reinforcement learning, specifically developing robust and efficient control algorithms for unmanned ships, unmanned vehicles, robots, and large-scale industrial automation systems operating in complex environments.

I welcome undergraduate students, visiting students and postdoctoral researcher. Please send your resume to yd.cui[at]siat.ac.cn

Members

M3: Lei Xia, Mingrong Gong
M2: Wenjun Huang, Chenyang Miao, Shangde Li
M1: Huilin Wang, Yingzhuo Jiang, Mingyu Sun, MOHAMMAD MOHAMMADI (ANSO Scholarship)

Visiting Students: Yue Wang (University College London)

Experience

2020 Apr - present
Associate Professor
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

2017 Oct - 2020 Mar
Post-doc Researcher
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.

Education

2014 Oct - 2017 Sep
Ph. D in Computer Science
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.

2012 Sep -2014 Sep
MEng in Computer Science
Doshisha University, Japan.

2008 Aug - 2012 Jul
BSc in Electronic Engineering
Xidian University, China.

Award

2021 May
Shenzhen Overseas High-Caliber Personnel (level B)

2020 Nov
The Hundred Talents Plan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

2019 Nov
SICE International Young Authors Award 2019 (IROS)
2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

2018 Oct
2018 Japanese Neural Network Society Best Paper Award

2018 Mar
NAIST Best Student Award (Doctor Course)
Nara Institute of Science and Technology

2016 Nov
The Best Oral Paper Award
2016 IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots

2016 Apr - 2017 Sep
Japanese Government Scholarship (MEXT)

Professional Memberships and Activities

Membership

The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

Chinese Association of Automation (CAA)

China Computer Federation (CCF)

Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI)

Reviewer

ICRA, IROS, CoRL, Humanoids

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics,

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics,

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters,

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,

Nature Communications, Automatica, Neural Networks,

Neurocomputing, Autonomous Robots, Robotics and Autonomous Systems,

Ocean Engineering, Information Sciences, Pattern Recognition

Editor

Editor, Special issue “Deformable object manipulation”, Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO) 2023

Assoxiate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024

Committee

IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM) 2019