It is our great pleasure to share that Farshad, recently passed his PhD confirmation! Congratulations Farshad 
Farshad’s work considers shared autonomy for human-robot interaction. His novel project looks to understand the impact of task difficulty and autonomy on human-robot team performance such that adaptive shared autonomy algorithms can be developed to balance human and robot abilities.
Well done Farshad! Here’s to continued great work in the years ahead!
Journalist(s): Jon
It is our great pleasure to celebrate that Ying has become a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering! This is very well deserved recognition of Ying’s incredible work across her career in control engineering and rehabilitation robotics.
Ying’s research uniquely bridges the very theoretical with clinical research and commercialisation. Not only can she develop pioneering research in fields like iterative learning control, extremum seeking control and non-linear analysis but she also actively looks to apply that knowledge to help improve the lives of people in rehabilitation and with mobility impairments.
Beyond Ying’s incredible research, she is an inspiring person and role model. We are not only very proud to work with someone like Ying, but also honoured for all the time and care that she brings in supporting our lab.
Journalist(s): Human Robotics Lab
Last month, members of our research team had the great pleasure of attending IROS 2025, one of the biggest annual Robotics Conferences. This year, the event was hosted in beautiful Hangzhou and ran from October 20th-24th.
Representing the Human Robotics Lab in the event was PhD students Zheyu (Lawrence), Yangmengfei (Murphy) as well as Jon (one of our academics). Here Murphy presented some of the work on implicit motor learning from his graduated MPhil at the workshop “Augmentative Human-Robot Interaction: From Human Augmentation to Human-Inspired Collaboration”. This workshop was co-organised by Jon as well as colleagues working across the UK, Canada and China. Jon also presented his recently published RAL paper “Comparison of Solo and Collaborative Trimanual Operation of a Supernumerary Limb in Tasks With Varying Physical Coupling” at the conference.
IROS was a fantastic week with more than 8000 attendees and 160 hardware demonstrations at the associated expo. The team had the great opportunity to see the state of the art, meet old friends and colleagues and network with potential future collaborators and industry partners. A big thank you to all the organisers and to everyone who helped support our team. Looking forward to next year!
Journalist(s):Jon
Its been fantastic showcasing all of our research between the University’s Open Day (17/08) and the Department’s Open House (19/08)! Across the hundreds of visitors, it has been inspiring seeing so much enthusiasm and interest in human robotics from the next generation of engineers.
A big thanks as well to all the volunteers within the lab who did such an excellent job in demoing their research! You guys were the true stars of the show 🙌.
Journalist(s): Jon
Huge congratulations to Dr Jonathan Eden on levelling up to Senior Lecturer (Level C) and to Dr Tomislav Baček on stepping up to Research Fellow (Level B)! After countless hours battling papers, wrangling proposals, and taming students, these promotions are well earned. Time to celebrate — with more coffee, more wine, fewer pineapples, extra bubble tea, more papers, way fewer reviewer comments, and definitely less headache! 🎉☕🍷🫖📚
Journalist(s): Ying
We’re excited to celebrate the graduation of Dr. Hengchang Liu, Dr. Mingrui Sun, Dr. Xiruo Cheng, and Dr. Zeyu Li! On the auspicious date of 8/8, they officially crossed the finish line of their PhD journeys and joined the ranks of our alumni.
Their supervisor, Prof. Ying Tan, shared this message:
Big cheers to Dr Hengchang Liu, Dr Mingrui Sun, Dr Xiruo Cheng, and Dr Zeyu Li! On the lucky day 8/8, you officially levelled up from PhD warriors to PhD legends. Years of coffee, code, and countless drafts finally paid off — and the graduation ceremony was your well-deserved boss fight victory dance. Congrats, doctors!
— Prof. Ying Tan
We congratulate Hengchang, Mingrui, Xiruo, and Zeyu on this fantastic achievement and wish them all the best in their next adventures.
Well done, doctors!
Journalist(s): Ying, Farshad
We’re very happy to congratulate Marcus Kho Yi-Cheng on successfully passing his PhD confirmation!
Marcus’s PhD focuses on human strategy estimation in physical human–robot interaction. His research aims to better understand how humans plan, adapt, and act during collaboration with robots, so that robots can respond more intelligently and support humans more effectively.
His supervisor, Jon, shared the following:
A big congratulations to Marcus Kho Yi-Cheng who was successfully confirmed yesterday!
Marcus will now continue working with us on his PhD in human strategy estimation for physical human–robot interaction. Now there is a little time to celebrate before starting his experimental data collection!
— Dr. Jonathan Eden, PhD Supervisor
We’re excited to see how Marcus’s work will advance our understanding of human–robot cooperation.
Congratulations, Marcus!
Journalist(s): Jon, Farshad
We’re delighted to congratulate Jayan on successfully passing his PhD confirmation this week!
Jayan’s research focuses on developing novel methods to improve motion capture of human movements, particularly in scenarios involving physical human–robot interaction. His work aims to combine measurements from both robots and external sensors to enable robots to better understand and respond to human partners.
His supervisor, Vincent, shared the following about Jayan’s progress and plans:
On Monday, Jayan presented his plan and early progress toward his PhD. Jayan is working on novel methods to improve motion capture of human movements, specifically during physical–robot interaction. In his work, he intends to leverage both the measurements coming from the robot and from external sensors to improve how robots interact with humans. Jayan plans to use sensor fusion approaches and to leverage vision-based measurements as well as robot kinematics.
So far, Jayan has set up a preliminary approach and experimental evaluation, and he is planning to run human experiments in the coming weeks.
— Dr. Vincent Crocher, PhD Supervisor
We’re excited to see how Jayan’s work will advance safer and more intelligent human–robot interaction.
Congratulations again, Jayan!
Journalist(s): Vincent, Farshad
Big congratulations to Jihoon Lim on successfully completing his PhD completion seminar! 🎉
His thesis, “Muscle Fatigue Analysis using Electronic Tattoo Wearable Surface Electromyography Sensor System,” marks a huge milestone after 3.5 years of dedicated work. Jihoon has been busy developing some very cool e-Tattoos to pick up sEMG signals—true sci-fi meets science! Hopefully, we’ll get to see our home-made sEMG system in action soon.
Now with the end in sight (just the thesis to go!), wishing you a strong final push to the finish line. You’re nearly there—keep going, Jihoon! 💪
Journalist(s): Ying
Our amazing Dr. Xiruo Cheng 🧠💪 and Dr. Zeyu Li 🤖🚀 are off on their next big adventure! After four unforgettable years with us—navigating research hurdles, late-night coding marathons, and the rollercoaster of COVID 😷—they’ve officially joined the PhD club 🎓🎉. Now, they’re heading back to China 🇨🇳 for exciting new career journeys and a big wedding celebration 💍—we couldn’t be prouder!
To send them off in style, we threw a bubble tea farewell party 🥳🧋 filled with laughs, hugs, and all the good vibes. From robot trials to bubble tea-fueled deadlines 🤯☕️, they’ve truly been a core part of our lab family.
Xiruo and Zeyu, thank you for the brains, the heart, and the memories. You’ll be deeply missed—but we know you’ll keep crushing it wherever you go. Go smash it, doctors! 💥🌏✈️
Journalist(s): Ying
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