Team
Director / Principal Investigator

Minas Liarokapis
- CEO, Acumino, Inc.
- Director, New Dexterity Research Group
- Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
PhD Students

Felipe Padula Sanches
Robot learning
University of Auckland

Shifei Duan
Robotic manipulation
University of Auckland

Angus Lynch
Aerial robotic manipulation
University of Auckland

Masahiro Kobayashi
Reinforcement learning for dexterous robotic manipulation
University of Auckland

Bonnie Guan
Muscle machine interfaces
University of Auckland

Haodan Jiang
Robotic grasping
University of Auckland

Cheng-Yueh Liu
Legged robots
University of Auckland

Shaoqian Lin
Aerial robotic manipulation
University of Auckland

Bryan Busby
Soft robotics
University of Auckland

Chen Lyu
Deep learning-based inspection
University of Auckland
Co-Supervised PhD Students
- Salik Khan — primary supervisor: Dr. Yang Zou
- Regina Lee — primary supervisor: Dr. Yuqian Lu
- Emily Steiner — primary supervisor: Dr. Henry Williams
- Changheng Lu — primary supervisor: Dr. Yang Zou