Ming and Ho-Nam Yu participated ICEE 2022 in Seoul. Our paper got the Best Poster Award.

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!

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

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

IEEE Spectrum wrote a report “Robot Vehicles Make Contactless Deliveries Amid Coronavirus Quarantine” presenting the achievement and technology power behind the autonomous logistic vehicle, Hercules, powered by Unity-Drive and RAM-LAB.

Hercules

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

An autonomous logistic vehicle, Hercules powered by Unity-Drive, has been providing contact-less goods transportation during the COVID-19 Outbreak.

“Hercules” demonstrates its capability in the urban environment. Thanks for the effort of colleagues in Unity-Drive and RAM-LAB.

Dr. Yuxiang Sun received the 2019 IEEE-ROBIO Best Paper Award with paper “Accurate Lane Detection with Atrous Convolution and Spatial Pyramid Pooling for Autonomous Driving”!

Dr. Yuxiang receiving award in ROBIO 2019

Our recently published 3D road reconstruction system has been reported by over ten international media agencies, such as VentureBeat, Diamandis, Drobots Company, UAS Vision, Import AI, Impact Lab, US Breaking News, PCNewsBuzz and Engineering 360. The paper is available at CVPR 2019 open access website.

Media Reports

Ming received 2018 IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award. He is being recognized: “For outstanding contributions to mobile robot path planning and control.” This award recognizes individuals (from academic institutions, government, industry, or research labs) who, in their early career, have made identifiable contributions that have had a major impact on intelligent robots and systems.

Ming receiving award from Prof Toshio Fukada

Ming and Qing Liang participated IROS 2018 in Madrid, Spain. Our paper got the Best Student Paper Finalist Award.

IROS 2018

Ming contributed a column article “Real paradox as self-driving age nears” for the HK Standard.

Ming presented “ How Robots Are Improving the Lives of People with Disabilities” for IEEE Transmitter.

Ming is on the review committee board of Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology.

Ming presented Keynote talk and joined discussion at the APAS Annual Showcase.

Ming at APAS Annual Showcase