Researcher

Fields of Research (FoR)

Medical robotics, Assistive robots and technology, Manufacturing robotics, Intelligent robotics, Human-computer interaction, Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics, Simulation, modelling, and programming of mechatronics systems

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Biography

For more details, please visit his homepage: https://www.drliaowu.com

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD with Dr Liao Wu, please send a copy of PDF combining your CV, Transcripts, Representative Publications, and English Test Results to liao.wu@unsw.edu.au.

Dr Liao "Leo" Wu is currently a Senior Lecturer with the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. 

He received the BS and...view more

For more details, please visit his homepage: https://www.drliaowu.com

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD with Dr Liao Wu, please send a copy of PDF combining your CV, Transcripts, Representative Publications, and English Test Results to liao.wu@unsw.edu.au.

Dr Liao "Leo" Wu is currently a Senior Lecturer with the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. 

He received the BS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. From 2014 to 2015, he was a Research Fellow at National University of Singapore. He then worked as a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia from 2016 to 2018. Between 2016 and 2020, he was also affiliated with the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision, an ARC Centre of Excellence. Since 2019, he joined UNSW as a lecturer in robotics.

His current research focuses on medical robotics, including flexible robots and intelligent perception for minimally invasive surgery. His research interests have also covered Lie groups theory in robotics, kinematic modelling and calibration, etc., with applications in industrial robotics.


My Grants

2021-2023, ARC Discovery Project, AUD $381,238, Bioinspired flexible haptic memory materials for artificial sensory nerves, CI: Dewei Chu, Shuhua Peng, Claudio Cazorla, Teri Furlong, Liao Wu

2021, UNSW MME RIS, AUD $45,456, OptiTrack infrared tracking system for long-range, real-time and precision 3D motion capture, CI: Mohammad Deghat, Liao Wu

2018, QUT IHBI Early Career Researcher Development Scheme, AUD $10,000, A hand-held dexterous, flexible, and intelligent robotic arthroscope to make arthroscopy easier and safer, CI: Liao Wu

2017, QUT SEF Small Equipment Fund, AUD $5,000, CI: Liao Wu

2017, QUT ECARD/VCRF Travel Fellowship, AUD $7,000, CI: Liao Wu

2016, QUT SEF Capital Equipment Fund, AUD $18,870, CI: Liao Wu

2016, QUT SEF Small Equipment Fund, AUD $3,934, CI: Liao Wu

2016-2018, QUT Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship, AUD $20,000, CI: Liao Wu


My Qualifications

Sep 2008 - Jul 2013      PhD in Mechanical Engineering                              Tsinghua University

Sep 2004 - Jul 2008      BS in Mechanical Engineering                                Tsinghua University


My Awards

2018               QUT IHBI Early Career Researcher Development Scheme

2017               Associate Fellowship of Higher Education Academy

2017               QUT ECARD/VCRF Travel Fellowship

2016               QUT Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship

2015               ICIA 2015 Best Paper Finalist

2008               Outstanding Graduate of Beijing

2008               Excellent Graduate of Tsinghua University

2007               Chinese National Encouragement Scholarship

2006               Tsinghua Daimler-Chrysler Scholarship

2005               Tsinghua Want-Want Scholarship


My Research Supervision


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Areas of supervision

Intelligent robots for minimally invasive surgery


Currently supervising

Mr Jian Hu (co-supervised with Jay Katupitiya) - Whole-body force sensing of flexible robots in minimally invasive surgery

Mr Andrew Razjigaev (co-supervised with Ajay Pandey and Jonathan Roberts) - Development of a vision-guided macro-micro assembly of multiple snake-like robots for teleoperated orthopaedics


My Teaching

MTRN4110 Robot Design (since T2 2019)

MTRN2500 Computing for Mechatronic Engineers (since T3 2020)

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Location

Room 301C, Ainsworth Building J17

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Contact

+61 (2) 9385 6548