School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
Dr Jihong Zhu
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Robotics
Profile
Biography
Dr Jihong Zhu is a Senior Lecturer of Robotics at the School of Physics, Engineering, and Technology, and an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Safe Autonomy, University of York. He leads the Robot-Assisted Living Laboratory (RALLA) at York, where his research primarily focuses on assistive manipulation for caregiving and chemistry automation.
Before joining York, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Cognitive Robotics, TU Delft, and Honda Research Institute, Europe. Jihong obtained his PhD at the University of Montpellier, where he conducted his research at LIRMM, supported by the H2020 VERSATILE project. His work on bimanual assistive dressing received media coverage from the BBC, Independent and IEEE Spectrum. He is presently an Associate Editor/Area Chair for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), CoRL, ICRA, and IROS. He is the founding co-chair of IEEE RAS Working Group on Deformable Object Manipulation.
He is a JSPS fellow (2026).
Career
Jihong is presently an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). He has served as an Associate Editor for ICRA (top robotics conference) since 2020.
My research aims at achieving dexterous robot manipulation in a human centred environment with control and machine learning. If you are interested in my research and/or would like to pursue a PhD with me, please feel free to drop me an email.
Publications
Selected publications
See my google scholar: https://scholar.google.nl/
