Fan Zhang

Honda Research Institute EU
Carl-Legien-Straße 30
Frankfurt, Germany

I am a senior research scientist and a project leader at Honda Research Institute EU. I am also a visiting researcher at Imperial College London. I was an Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow funded by Schmidt Futures. I received my Ph.D. degree from Imperial College London (advised by Prof. Yiannis DemirisPersonal Robotics Lab).

My research interests cover many aspects of machine learning algorithms applied to general robot manipulation. I have been awarded The Queen Mary UK Best PhD in Robotics Award 2020 1st place! My research has been accepted at Science Robotics and reported by BloombergThe Times.

Some recent highlights from our research:
Organizer, RSS Workshop on Assistive Robots, 2024
Guest Lecturer, TAMS, University of Hamburg, 2024
Organizer, ICRA Workshop on Assistive Manipulation, 2023
Speaker, Talks on Assistive Robotics, King's College London, 2023
Speaker, AI seminar in Statistics, Imperial College London, 2023
Speaker, Apple Weekly Seminar, 2023
Reviewer, Scientific Reports, ICRA, IROS, RSS, WACV, RA-L, T-RO, 2015+