I earned my bachelor's degree from Central South University in 2017 and joined Professor Qian Huihuan's team in 2018 to conduct research on robotic sailboats. I received the Ph.D. degree in Computer and Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, in 2024.
My research focuses on the navigation safety of autonomous sailing robots. I, as the first person to do so, have proposed (1) a risk assessment approach, (2) a wake avoidance algorithm, and (3) a turning radius prediction scheme for sailing in complex marine environments. Furthermore, a station-keeping algorithm based on a switched systems method was proposed for ocean observation, enabling OceanVoy (a catamaran sailboat robot with a length of 4.6 meters) to reciprocate within a circular area with a radius of 0.78 kilometers for over 24 hours.
During my PhD study, I have produced a total of 19 papers, with 16 already published in international journals and conferences such as T-RO (Accepted), RA-L, JFR, JMSE, ICRA, and IROS. I was nominated for the Best Application Paper Award at the international robotics conference IROS and received the Best Paper Award nomination three times at the robotics conferences ROBIO and RCAR. I have also been awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award.
I'm currently a postdoc associate at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), and my research interests include field robotics, safety-critical navigation, and deployment in unstructured and dynamic environment.
