Fangxun (Billy) Zhong
Assistant Professor, Roboticist
Zhiren Building, CUHK(SZ),
2001 Longxiang Boulevard,
Shenzhen, China
I am currently an assistant professor at School of Science Engineering and the Presidential Young Fellow of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHKSZ). I am also leading the Medical Robotics & Healthcare Intelligence Lab (MR·HI). I was a postdoctoral fellow with CUHK T Stone Robotics Institute (CURI) and, before that, I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), in 2021. My Ph.D. and postdoctoral supervisor is Prof. Yun-Hui Liu. I obtained my B.Eng. degree from Department of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, in 2014. I am currently also the (joint) research associate of CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, and a member of IEEE and IEEE RAS.
My research interest includes robot autonomy in surgical applications, medical and healthcare robotics system, robot planning and control in complex environment, learning-driven 3D perception, etc.
I am looking for prospective MPhil and PhD students. If you are self-motivated to conduct research in medical robotics regarding motion planning and control, mechanical and mechatronics robot design, AI-enabled 3D sensing and actuation, feel free to contact me via email and drop your CV, thanks! 
news
| May 12, 2025 | Our co-authored paper “Smooth Surface-to-Surface Contact Control for Rope-Base Soft-tip Manipulator” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science Engineering. |
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| May 09, 2025 | Our workshop “Soft Tissue Manipulation in Robotic Surgery “ has been accepted by IEEE/RSJ IROS 2025. The workshop will be held on October 24th. Feel free to learn more from our workshop website. |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Our journal paper “Efficient Underwater Object Detection With Enhanced Feature Extraction and Fusion” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, congratulations to my student Shaoming! |
| Jan 28, 2025 | Our paper “6-DoF Shape Servoing of Deformable Objects in Co-Rotated Space of Modal Graph” has been accepted by IEEE ICRA 2025. |
| Jan 02, 2025 | I am teaching CSC1006 Artificial Intelligence for Science and Engineering in AY24-25 Term 2 at CUHK(SZ). This is a newly proposed compulsory course served by School of Science Engineering for freshmen undergraduate students, with capacity of 300, building an interesting bridge for basic understanding of AI and its application in this world. |
