In 1983, I was born in Shantou, a southern Chinese coastal city. I did my basic education both in my hometown and in Singapore before embarking on my “Journey to the West” for my first degree and PhD studies. Since Dec 2013, I started working as a research scientist at A*STAR in Singapore. Here is my CV in brief:

Education

• PhD/DIC, Electrical Engineering, Imperial College London, 2008 – 2012
• MA(Cantab), University of Cambridge, Mar 2011
• BA(Hons), Information and Computer Engineering, University of Cambridge, 2004 – 2007

Work & Trainings

• Principal Scientist & Deputy Department Head (Robotics & Autonomous Systems), A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Dec 2013 – present
• Visiting Researcher, Imperial College London, UK, Oct 2012 – 2017
• Honorary Research Fellow, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, UK, 2012 – 2013
• Honorary Research Associate, UCL Institute of Child Health, UK, Oct 2012 – 2015
• Research Officer, ASTAR Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore, 2007 – 2008

Awards

• KUKA Innovation Award Finalist, 2021
• Best Demo Award, 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021
• Tan Kah Kee Young Inventor Award (Merit), Singapore, 2018
• Outstanding Mentor Award, Ministry of Education (SMP), 2015
• Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE Int’l Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2010
• Certificate of Merit, World Congress on Engineering, 2008
• National Science Scholarship(BS-PhD), A*STAR, Singapore, 2004 – 2012

Services

• Secretary, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, Singapore Chapter, 2020 –  present
• Treasurer, Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association, Singapore, 2020 – present
• Secretary, Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society, 2019 – present
• General Secretary, Teochew Doctorate Society, Singapore, 2018 – present
• Director, International Teochew Doctors Association, 2017 – present
• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2021 – present); IEEE RAS CEB (2020 – present); IEEE ITS CEB (2018 – present),
• Programme Chair (ICSR 2021, HFR 2018),Finance Chair (ICASSP 2022, IALP 2019/20), Local Arrangement Chair (ASRU 2019), Publicity Chair (HAI 2019, HAI 2016), General Secretary (ITD Forum 2016)
• Volunteer, Games of the XXX Olympiad, London, 2012