DrFan Zhang
Visiting Researcher
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- Visiting ResearcherDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
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- Electrical Engineering, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Dr Fan Zhang is a visiting researcher at Imperial College London. He is also a senior scientist at Honda Research Institute EU. He was an Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow funded by Schmidt Futures. He received his Ph.D. degree from Imperial College London (advised by Prof. Yiannis Demiris, Personal Robotics Lab).
His research interests cover many aspects of machine learning algorithms applied to general robot manipulation. His research has been accepted at Science Robotics. He has been awarded the UK Best PhD in Robotics Award 2020 1st place sponsored by Queen Mary, the Best Research Paper (Early Career Researcher) at the 2025 AI & Robotics Research Awards held by UKRI, and the RLC 2026 Outstanding Paper Award. His work has been reported by The Times and Bloomberg.
DEGREES
- PhDImperial College London, London, United Kingdom
FACULTY
- Faculty of Engineering
POSITION NAME
- Visiting Researcher