Biography

Jun Liu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Data and Systems Engineering at The University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining HKU, he worked in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor starting in 2019 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2024. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2016 and his B.E. in Automation and B.S. in Economics from Shandong University in 2008. He received his postdoctoral training at the Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging at Cornell University, where he conducted research on medical robotics and advanced imaging technologies.

His research has been recognized at flagship robotics and automation conferences, earning multiple awards, including the Best Student Paper Award and Best Medical Robotics Paper Finalist Award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in 2014, the Gaitech Best Paper in Robotics Award at the IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation in 2016, and the Best New Application Award from IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering in 2018.

Research Interests

Micro/nano Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Sensors and Actuators, Multi-Scale Automation, Advanced Manufacturing.

Prizes/Honours

• Best Paper in Robotics Award Finalist,

International Conference on Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics, 2024

• IEEE TASE Best New Application Award,

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2018

• ICIA Gaitech Best Paper in Robotics Award

IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, 2016

• ICRA Best Student Paper Award

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

• ICRA Best Manipulation Paper Award Finalist

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

• ICRA Best Medical Robotics Paper Award Finalist

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

• TRCHR Fellowship

Ted Rogers Center for Heart Research, Toronto, 2015-2016

Position(s) Available

The Automation and Intelligent Robot Lab is hiring strong candidates at postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate levels. With a strong belief in interdisciplinary research in electrical, mechanical and biomedical engineering, we innovate and integrate the cutting-edge techniques to invent enabling tools and technology. The lab shares a culture of being radically open-minded and transparent. If you are interested in our research, please contact us. Collaborations and donations are welcome to “create a better world, together with smarter robots”.

All talented and enthusiastic individuals with strong academic background are encouraged to apply. Better opportunities will be given to students with a high GPA and/or one or two peer-reviewed international journal publications.

For more information, please refer to: https://airlab.hku.hk/