Education #
The University of Hong Kong
MPhil, School of Computing and Data Science
Embodied AI and Robotics
Supervised by Prof. Pan Jia
Present
The University of Hong Kong
BEng(CompSc)
Sep 2021 to Jun 2025
Raimondi College, Hong Kong
High School Diploma
Sep 2016 to Jun 2021
Publications #
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2026 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition
Lei Yang, Chun Kit Chan, Ian Leong Ting Lo, Tien-Hsuan Wu, and Chun Kit Chui.
“Repurposing Student-initiated Workshops for Interdisciplinary Engineering Challenges.” Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Poster. -
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2026)
Yuxuan Chen*, Ian Leong Ting Lo*, Bao Guo, Netitorn Kawmali, Chun Kit Chan, Ruoyu Wang, Jia Pan, and Lei Yang.
“CLIO: Coordinate User Visual Attention with Audio Narratives for Enhanced Engagement.” Late-Breaking Report. -
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2025)
Ian Leong Ting Lo*, Bao Guo*, and Shaoyu Zeng*.
“An End-User Programming Interface for Robotic Arm Cleaning CNC Machines.” Student Design Challenge.
*Equal contribution.
Achievements #
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Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Scholarship Fund
Talent Development Scholarship (2023/24) -
Hong Kong Volunteer Award 2023
Individual Award (Volunteer Hours) - Bronze Award -
RoboMaster University Championship (RMUC)
- 2nd Prize (Regional Competition - International)
- 3rd Prize (Final Tournament)
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RoboMaster University League (RMUL)
- 3rd Prize (Standard Match)
- 3rd Prize (3V3 Match)
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Credit Suisse CodeIT Coding Challenge
4th place out of 27 teams (18th Sep 2022)
Work Experience #
| Company | Post | Role | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation Wing, HKU | Student Project Development Officer (Technical Officer) | Led a tour-guide robot project with actions for human-robot interaction. Led student research projects, including an autonomous drone and a quadruped robot for inspection. | Aug 2025 to Present |
| Student Research Assistant | Developed assistive teleoperation for robotic arms with MTR, including CNC machine cleaning on 6-DoF WidowX-250s arms. Open-sourced a ROS 2 package for HTC VIVE controller data and a ROS 1 digital twin for DOBOT Magician arms. Hosted robotic-arm workshops for HKU students and MTR trainees. Developed an ESP32 and ROS quadruped robot with LiDAR mapping. | June 2023 to July 2025 | |
| Paid Student Helper | Electronics workshop, “Plant” Your Fairy Tree (Mar 2023): wiring and soldering guidance. Firmware workshop (Jan 2023): ESP32 programming support. ROS workshop (Oct 2022): ROS programming support. | Oct 2022 to Mar 2023 | |
| CS Department, HKU | Student Teaching Assistant | Tutorials and support for C++, Python, and Java. Forum and session help on Java, object-oriented programming, and Linux. Taught ENGG1330, COMP2113, and COMP2396. | Sep–Dec 2022, Jan–May 2024, Sep–Dec 2024 |
| AI-Driving Team, HKU | AWS DeepRacer Research Assistant (Part-time) | Trained reinforcement learning models on AWS DeepRacer, wrote tutorial material, and supported the in-campus DeepRacer Competition in hardware and software. | June 2023 to Aug 2023 |
| Syngular Technology Limited | Software Engineer (Part-time) | Wrote Docker files for service deployment and device-portal communication with Unity and WebRTC. Contributed to HoloLens integration and DICOM medical image processing. | Feb 2023 to Apr 2023 |
| HKU RoboMaster | Project Manager | Recruited 30+ members, introduced a scoring system, supervised R&D, and organized a joint technical conference with Wuhan Institute of Technology. Ran promotions and resolved development issues. | Aug 2022 to Jan 2024 |
| Software Team Member | Built STM32 and ROS control systems, including a PS4 controller ROS node for omnidirectional movement. Trained an AI DetectNet model on Jetson TX2 for robot detection. | Sep 2021 to Sep 2023 |
