Team

Director / Principal Investigator

Minas Liarokapis

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

Felipe Padula Sanches

Robot learning

University of Auckland

Shifei Duan

Shifei Duan

Robotic manipulation

University of Auckland

Angus Lynch

Angus Lynch

Aerial robotic manipulation

University of Auckland

Masahiro Kobayashi

Masahiro Kobayashi

Reinforcement learning for dexterous robotic manipulation

University of Auckland

Bonnie Guan

Bonnie Guan

Muscle machine interfaces

University of Auckland

Haodan Jiang

Haodan Jiang

Robotic grasping

University of Auckland

Cheng-Yueh Liu

Cheng-Yueh Liu

Legged robots

University of Auckland

Shaoqian Lin

Shaoqian Lin

Aerial robotic manipulation

University of Auckland

Bryan Busby

Bryan Busby

Soft robotics

University of Auckland

Chen Lyu

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