Zhuo Chen

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Robot Perception Lab(RPL), supervised by Prof. Shan Luo at King’s College London. I am also a research intern supervised by Prof. Jiankang Deng at Imperial College London. My passion lies in endowing robots with tactile sensing abilities akin to skin of humans. My Ph.D. research primarily focuses on overcoming challenges in vision-based tactile sensors and contact-rich robot grasping and manipulation tasks using learning-based methods, including generative learning, transfer learning, and reinforcement learning.

Before starting my Ph.D., I spent one year as a fully-funded visiting student at the National University of Singapore, conducting research on Manta Ray robots, supervised by Prof. Chew Chee-Meng. I obtained my master’s degree from Xiamen University, where my research interests included the simulation, fabrication, and verification of flexible tactile sensors and their applications in robotics.