Fan Zhang
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 Demiris).
My research interests cover many aspects of machine learning algorithms applied to general robot manipulation. My research has been accepted at Science Robotics. I have been awarded The UK Best PhD in Robotics Award 2020 1st place held by Queen Mary, and Best Research Paper Finalist (Early Career Researcher), 2025 AI & Robotics Research Awards held by TAS Hub, Responsible Ai UK and the Royal Society.
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Affordance-based Robot Manipulation with Flow Matching
Fan Zhang, Michael Gienger
★ Hugging Face 🤗 LeRobot PushT task integration in progress ★
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Learning garment manipulation policies toward robot-assisted dressing
Fan Zhang, Yiannis Demiris
Science Robotics, 2022
★ Best Research Paper Finalist (Early Career Researcher), 2025 AI & Robotics Research Awards, TAS Hub, Responsible Ai UK and the Royal Society ★
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Probabilistic Real-Time User Posture Tracking for Personalized Robot-Assisted Dressing
Fan Zhang, Antoine Cully, Yiannis Demiris
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2019
★ The Queen Mary UK Best PhD in Robotics Award 2020 1st place ★
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Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Automated Multi-Modal Dance Performance Assessment
Yun Zhong, Fan Zhang, Yiannis Demiris
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023
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Visual-Tactile Learning of Garment Unfolding for Robot-Assisted Dressing
Fan Zhang, Yiannis Demiris
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023
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Learning Grasping Points for Garment Manipulation in Robot-Assisted Dressing
Fan Zhang, Yiannis Demiris
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020
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Preoperative Optimization of the Surgical Robot considering Internal Diversity of Workspace
Zhiyuan Yan, Zhijiang Du, Fan Zhang, Weidong Wang
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 2018
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Personalized Robot-Assisted Dressing using User Modeling in Latent Spaces
Fan Zhang, Yiannis Demiris
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017
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Preoperative Planning for the Multi-Arm Surgical Robot using PSO-GP-based Performance Optimization
Fan Zhang, Zhiyuan Yan, Zhijang Du
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017
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Preoperative setup planning for robotic surgery based on a simulation platform and Gaussian process
Fan Zhang, Zhiyuan Yan, Zhijang Du
IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2016
★ Best Student Paper Award ★
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An Under-Actuated Manipulation Controller Based on Workspace Analysis and Gaussian Processes
Fan Zhang, Yanyu Su, Xiang Zhang, Wei Dong, Zhijiang Du
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015
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2025
Invited Talk, ICRA Workshop on Deformable Object Manipulation2024
Invited Talk, University of Hamburg Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems (TAMS) Seminar2023
Invited Talk, King's College London Social AI & Robotics Laboratory Seminar2022
Invited Talk, Tsinghua University Intelligent Robot Seminar (live audience: 150,000)2021+
Invited Talk, The Institution of Engineering and Technology Human Motion Analysis for Healthcare Applications
★ Science Robotics, 2022 ★
Learning Garment Manipulation Policies towards Robot-Assisted Dressing
Fan Zhang, Yiannis Demiris
Paper https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abm6010
Code is here https://github.com/fan6zh/robot_dressing
Please find more details on our website https://fan6zh.github.io/robot-dressing/