Short Bio

I am Zeqing (aka Benji) Zhang. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), where I continue to pursue my academic journey in robotics. 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 text modalities 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 (e.g., 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.