Peng Jeffery ZHOU

Postdog @ The University of Hong Kong.

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19w, 1215-1220, Hong Kong Science and Technology Park

Hong Kong SAR, China

Currently, I am a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) advised by Prof. Pan Jia.

Before that, I worked at The Robotic and Machine Intelligence Lab, and obtained my Ph.D. degree in Robotics from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, under the supervision of Dr. David Navarro-Alarcon.

In 2021, I worked as a visiting Ph.D. student at The Robotics, Perception and Learning Lab , KTH, under the supervision of Prof. Danica Kragic . Furthermore, I also worked with Prof. Pai Zheng , Prof. Hesheng Wang , Dr. Jihong Zhu and Dr. Charlie Yang during my Ph.D. study.

Prior to PolyU, I have two years with Tencent as an algorithm engineer, and one year with Discover Financial Service as a senior data analyst. Before that, I received my Master’s degree from the School of Software Engineering, Tongji University in 2017 with The Outstanding Graduate honor, under the supervision of Prof. Yan Liu.

I enjoy research at the intersection of Robotics, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision applied to problems in Robotic Manipulation. My research interests include deformable object manipulation, robot cognition, and task and motion planning. My ultimate goal is to develop robots with human-like cognition and manipulation abilities.

My ultimate research goal 🌈 is to develop robots 🤖 with human-like cognition 🧠 and manipulation 🦾 abilities.

This is our new experimental results on tool manipulation project.

news

Dec 9, 2023 Our new paper on Imitating Learning for Tool-based Garment Folding has been accepted in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2023
Jun 29, 2023 Assigned as an Associate Editor for IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2023).
Jan 9, 2023 Our new paper on Neural reactive path planning for robotic silicone sealing has been accepted in Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing , 2023
Nov 29, 2022 🏆 Best AI Implementation Award , AI x HK Opencup 2022
Oct 29, 2022 🏆 Outstanding Young Research Award , CNERC Annual Technical Symposium 2022

selected publications

  1. RA-L
    LaSeSOM: A latent and semantic representation framework for soft object manipulation
    Peng Zhou, Jihong Zhu, Shengzeng Huo, and 1 more author
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021
    arXiv Website
  2. ArXiv
    Bimanual Deformable Bag Manipulation Using a Structure-of-Interest Based Latent Dynamics Model
    Peng Zhou, Pai Zheng, Jiaming Qi, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.11432, 2024
  3. RA-L
    Path planning with automatic seam extraction over point cloud models for robotic arc welding
    Peng Zhou, Rui Peng, Maggie Xu, and 2 more authors
    IEEE robotics and automation letters, 2021
    Website
  4. RCIM
    Human-Robot Collaboration for Reactive Deformable Linear Object Manipulation Using Topological Latent Control Model
    Peng Zhou, Pai Zheng, Jiaming Qi, and 7 more authors
    Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 2024
    Website
  5. IEEE T-II
    Imitating Tool-based Garment Folding from a Single Visual Observation Using Hand-Object Graph Dynamics
    Peng Zhou, Jiaming Qi, Anqing Duan, and 3 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2023
    Website
  6. RCIM
    Neural reactive path planning with Riemannian motion policies for robotic silicone sealing
    Peng Zhou, Pai Zheng, Jiaming Qi, and 5 more authors
    Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 2023
    Website
  7. Under Review
    Interactive Perception for Deformable Object Manipulation
    Zehang Weng, Peng Zhou, Hang Yin, and 4 more authors
    IEEE robotics and automation letters, 2024
    Website