Principal of HKUST (GZ), Prof. Lionel Ni, visited Intelligent Autonomous Driving Center (IADC) in HKUST Guangzhou.

Congratulation! Ming ranks 26th globally in AI 2000 Scholars in IROS, and 1st in Chinese.

Alumni Dr. Lei Tai ranks 74th globally and 4th in Chinese.

Ming presented Keynote talk at ICRA 2021 in Xi’An.

Ming will deliver keynote speech at ICRA 2021 this june. Everyone is welcome!

Congratulations to Muhammad Usman Maqbool, who successfully defended his PhD thesis and met the requirements for the award!

Ming received the Second Prize of the 2020 Guangdong Province Technology Invention Award.

Ming is awarded on works in “Research and Application of Low-cost Robot Localization and Navigation Technology”.

Official Publicity of the Awards

Ming Liu, IEEE Senior Member, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society is interviewed by IEEE Transmitter on why autonomous systems will be important in 2021.

Original Report on IEEE Transmitter

Congratulations to Yuying Chen, who successfully defended her PhD thesis and met the requirements for the award!

Ming received the First Prize of the 2020 Shanghai Science and Technology Award.

Ming is awarded on works in “Key Technologies and Applications of Robot Multi-Dimensional Perception and Autonomous Control”.

The Shanghai Science and Technology Award for Technical Invention is granted to citizens or organizations that use scientific and technological knowledge to make major technical inventions in terms of product, process, material, system, etc.

Original News Report

Official Publicity of the Awards

Hong Kong’s first self-driving car with a host of innovative functions was put into use during the COVID-19 pandemic, delivering groceries to residents and frontline workers at lockdown areas on the Chinese mainland.

Original News Report from Chinadaily

Congratulations to Haoyang Ye, who successfully defended his PhD thesis and met the requirements for the award!

Ming interviewed by HKUST. Forging New Paths:Autonomous Vehicles Developed by HKUST Engineering Professor Serve the Community during COVID-19 Outbreak in Mainland China.

Ming with Hong Kong’s first autonomous car

Congratulations to Ting Sun, who successfully defended her PhD thesis and met the requirements for the award!

Ting Sun is presenting her work

Congratulations to Lei Tai, who successfully defended his PhD thesis and met the requirements for the award!

Lei Tai is presenting his work

Thanks to the team work, we successfully participated and contributed to the “Robotics Day” of HKUST. Over 20+ media including TVB, China Daily, Xinhua Net, Sina, Yahoo, covered our work within the first 12 hours!!

Sample reports:

HKUST President Prof. Tony Chan at HKUST RI Robotics Day

Welcome PhD student M Usman Maqbool Bhutta from Pakistan who won the Shahbaz Sharif Merit Scholarship and more than 15 news in Pakistan reported this.

usman maqbool bhutta scholarship news

Ming participated the congregation at HKUST with former lab graduates: Yangang, Kejie and Guoyang.

HKUST congregation

Ming will start a new job as a visiting Assistant Professor at ECE of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Group Photo by 2013