Short Bio

I am Zeqing (aka Benji) Zhang, an incoming Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), collaborating with Prof. Lihua Xie. Currently, I am undergoing postdoctoral training at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), closely working with Prof. Jia Pan.

Prior to this, I completed my PhD at HKU under the distinguished supervision of Prof. Jia Pan and Prof. Wenping Wang, whose guidance has been instrumental in shaping my research trajectory.

My current research interests focus on using robotic proprioceptive and exteroceptive sensing for the perception and manipulation of soft bodies (e.g., garments) and granular media (e.g., sands). I primarily work with vision, touch, force sensing and natural language prompts to handle these nonlinear materials.

Additionally, I have diverse interests in applications involving serial robots, parallel robots, and mobile robots. My early work includes planning and coordination for multi-robot systems of AGVs, collision detection for UAVs, and fundamental problems in parallel robots.

I previously interned at the Robotics and Autonomous Driving Lab (RAL) at Baidu Research and worked as an algorithm engineer at HikRobot. I visited the Harada Lab at Osaka University (2024), Prof. Jiajun Wu’s group at Stanford University (2025).