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
- 2026 - now Senior Lecturer of Robotics, Healthcare and Bioscience Translational Group Lead, University of York
- 2022 - 2026 Lecturer of Robotics, University of York
- 2020 - 2022 Postdoc, TU Delft and Honda Research Institute, Europe
- 2017 - 2020 PhD in Robotics, University of Montpellier/LIRMM
- 2013 - 2015 MSc in Systems and Control, TU Delft
- 2009 - 2013, BEng (First Class Honours), Huazhong University of Science and Technology & University of Birmingham
Publications
Selected publications
See my google scholar: https://scholar.google.nl/
