Dr Leo Wu
Sep 2008 - Jul 2013聽 聽 聽 PhD in Mechanical Engineering聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 Tsinghua University
Sep 2004 - Jul 2008聽 聽 聽 BS in Mechanical Engineering聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 Tsinghua University
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Dr Liao "Leo" Wu is currently a Senior Lecturer with the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.聽
He received the BS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. From 2014聽to 2015, he was a Research Fellow at National University of Singapore. He then worked as a Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia from 2016 to 2018. Between 2016 and 2020, he was also affiliated with the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision, an ARC Centre of Excellence.聽Since 2019, he joined 国民彩票 as a lecturer in robotics.
His current research focuses on medical robotics, including flexible robots and intelligent perception for聽minimally invasive surgery. His research interests have聽also covered聽Lie groups theory in robotics, kinematic modelling and calibration, etc., with applications in industrial robotics.
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- Teaching and Supervision
2021-2023, ARC Discovery Project,聽AUD $381,238, Bioinspired flexible haptic memory materials for artificial sensory nerves, CI: Dewei Chu, Shuhua Peng, Claudio Cazorla, Teri Furlong, Liao Wu
2021, 国民彩票 MME RIS, AUD $45,456, OptiTrack infrared tracking system for long-range, real-time and precision 3D motion capture, CI: Mohammad Deghat, Liao Wu
2018, QUT聽IHBI Early Career Researcher Development Scheme, AUD $10,000, A聽hand-held dexterous, flexible, and intelligent robotic arthroscope to make arthroscopy easier and safer, CI: Liao Wu
2017,聽QUT SEF Small Equipment Fund, AUD $5,000, CI: Liao Wu
2017, QUT聽ECARD/VCRF Travel Fellowship, AUD $7,000, CI: Liao Wu
2016, QUT聽SEF Capital Equipment Fund,聽AUD $18,870, CI: Liao Wu
2016,聽QUT SEF Small Equipment Fund, AUD聽$3,934, CI: Liao Wu
2016-2018,聽QUT Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 Research Fellowship, AUD $20,000, CI: Liao Wu
2018聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽QUT IHBI Early Career Researcher Development Scheme
2017聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽Associate Fellowship of Higher Education Academy
2017聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽QUT ECARD/VCRF Travel Fellowship
2016聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽QUT Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 Research Fellowship
2015聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽ICIA 2015 Best Paper Finalist
2008聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽Outstanding Graduate of Beijing
2008聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽Excellent Graduate of Tsinghua University
2007聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽Chinese National Encouragement Scholarship
2006聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽Tsinghua Daimler-Chrysler Scholarship
2005聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽Tsinghua Want-Want Scholarship
My Research Supervision
Mr Jian Hu (co-supervised with Jay Katupitiya) - Whole-body force sensing of flexible robots in minimally invasive surgery
Mr聽Andrew Razjigaev (co-supervised with Ajay Pandey and Jonathan Roberts) - Development of a vision-guided macro-micro assembly of multiple snake-like robots for teleoperated orthopaedics
My Teaching
MTRN4110 Robot Design (since T2 2019)
MTRN2500 Computing for Mechatronic Engineers (since T3 2020)