Ziwei Wang

Biography

Ziwei Wang is a Lecturer in Robotics at Lancaster University, leading the Advanced Robotic Teleoperation Lab at the Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre (LIRA). He received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University, China. Prior to joining Lancaster University, he worked as a Research Associate with the Human Robotics Group in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, U.K.
His main research interests and expertise include teleoperation systems, human sensorimotor augmentation, and human-robot interaction. He has led research projects as PI or Co-I funded by Horizon 2020, Innovate UK, The Royal Society, etc. He was a Visiting Scholar at King’s College London, UK, and is the Robotics and AI Collaboration (RAICo) Fellow funded by Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, UK Atomic Energy Authority, Sellafield Ltd and The University of Manchester. He has served as an Associate Editor of Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics (BIROB), Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems. He is the receipt of Young Author Award at IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimization in 2018, Best Paper Award of IEEE International Conference on Automation and Computing in 2022, Best Poster Award of IROS Workshop 2022.