Liang Zhao (Collaborator)

Reader in Robot Systems in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh

Dr. Liang Zhao received the PhD degree in photogrammetry and remote sensing from the Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System, School of Earth and Space Science, Peking University, Beijing China, in January 2013. From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Department of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom. From 2016 to 2024, he was appointed as a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer and the Director of Robotics in Health at the Robotics Institute, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

He is currently a Reader in Robot Systems and a Royal Academy of Engineering/Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow in the Institute of Perception, Action, and Behaviour, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. His research interests include surgical robotics, simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM), and spatial AI techniques in mobile robot navigation and image guided robotic surgery.

He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), and Area Chair for the International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI).