Member

Lab director: Fangqiang Ding

MPhil Student

Lingkai Zhang

Lingkai Zhang is currently pursuing an MPhil degree at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). He received his bachelor’s degree in Electronic Information Engineering with First-Class Honours. He is an MPhil Student at PAIRS Lab, with research interests in long-term robot memory, world models, embodied intelligence, and multimodal perception.

Research Assistant

Yinuo Chen

Yinuo Chen is currently pursuing his bachelor’s degree in Big Data Management and Application at South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China. He is also serving as a Research Assistant at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). His research interests include long-horizon robotic tasks, robot navigation, world models, and multimodal large language models.

Research Assistant

Ruipeng Yang

Ruipeng Yang is currently pursuing his bachelor’s degree in Robotics Engineering. He is also a Research Assistant at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). His research interests include robot navigation and mobile autonomy for rescue.

MPhil Student

Zhengyue Xu

Zhengyue Xu is currently pursuing his MPhil degree at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). He is also an MPhil Student at PAIRS Lab, HKUST(GZ). His research interests include robot learning, world models, autonomous driving, and multimodal artificial intelligence.

MPhil Student

Tingjun Wang

Tingjun Wang is currently pursuing her degree in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at HKUST(GZ), Guangzhou, China. She is also serving as an MPhil Student at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). Her research interests include scene understanding, adaptive decision-making, interpretability and long-horizon robotic tasks.

Research Assistant

Jiacheng Zhang

Jiacheng Zhang is a Research Assistant at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). His home institution is Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU). His research interests include physical intelligence, world models, and vision-language-action models.

Research Assistant

Jiahui Gan

Jiahui Gan is a Research Assistant at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). His research interests include reinforcement learning and robot manipulation.

Research Assistant

Yichen Wang

Yichen Wang is a Research Assistant at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), advised by Prof. Fangqiang Ding. He received his B.Eng. in Automation from Tongji University in 2026. His research interests include embodied AI, robot navigation, spatial perception, vision-language-action models, world models, and deep reinforcement learning.

Research Assistant

Moquan Sha

Moquan Sha is a Research Assistant at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). He received a double bachelor’s degree in Information Engineering and English from Southeast University. His research interests include embodied intelligence, vision-language-action models, long-horizon robotic tasks, failure recovery, and reliable robotic systems.

Research Assistant

Yu Han

Yu Han is currently pursuing a B.Eng. in Robotics Engineering at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China. He is also a Research Assistant at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). His research interests include dexterous manipulation, multimodal sensing, force-aware robot learning, and embodied intelligence.

Research Assistant

Bohan You

Bohan You obtained his MSc in Computer Control & Automation from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is now working as a Research Assistant at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). His current research focuses on robot navigation, robust SLAM, multi-sensor fusion, and degeneration-aware perception.

MPhil Student

Chenlu Mao

Chenlu Mao is an MPhil student at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). Her research interests include multimodal human-robot interaction, robot learning, and trustworthy physical AI.

MSc Student

Ganxuan Xie

Ganxuan Xie is currently pursuing an MSc in Smart Manufacturing at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). He is also a member of PAIRS Lab, HKUST(GZ), where his research interests focus on whole-body control, humanoid robotics, and robot manipulation.

Research Assistant

Haotian Yan

Haotian Yan is currently pursuing his master’s degree in traffic information and control engineering at Jilin University. He is also serving as a Research Assistant at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). His research interests include robot navigation, multi-sensor fusion, and degradation-aware perception.

MPhil Student

Jiaxuan Li

Jiaxuan Li is currently pursuing his master’s degree in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at HKUST(GZ), Guangzhou, China. He is also serving as an MPhil Student at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). His research interests include multimodal embodied perception, embodied neuromorphic intelligence, robot learning, and embodied large models.

Intern

Jingyi Zhong

Jingyi Zhong received her BSc in Computer Science with Honours. She is currently an Intern at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). Her research interests lie at the intersection of robotics and control, with a focus on learning-based control and embodied intelligence. She has previously worked as a visiting undergraduate researcher at MURO Lab, UC San Diego.

MPhil Student

Junhui He

Junhui He is an MPhil Student at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). His research interests include world models and robot manipulation.

Intern

Kaiyuan Zhang

Kaiyuan Zhang is currently pursuing a B.Sc. in Computer Science. He is also serving as a Research Assistant at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). He works on robot navigation and SLAM as a member of the Helios RoboMaster team, and has interned at Galbot as an Embodied Algorithm Ecosystem Engineer. His research interests include robot navigation, robot learning, and embodied AI.

Research Assistant

Lingkai Zhang

Lingkai Zhang is currently pursuing his bachelor’s degree in Electronic Information Engineering. He is also serving as a Research Assistant at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). His research interests include whole-body control and mobile manipulation.

Visiting PhD Student

Liuyuan Na

Liuyuan Na is currently pursuing a PhD degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Since August 2026, he has been a Visiting PhD Student at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). His research interests include autonomous agent systems, world models for embodied intelligence, long-term robot memory, and embodied intelligence. He is particularly interested in developing embodied agents that can learn, adapt, and reason over extended interactions.

Research Assistant

Sitong Yan

Sitong Yan is currently an undergraduate student at Sun Yat-sen University (Shenzhen). He is serving as a Research Assistant at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). His research interests include world models, flexible wearable electronics, human-robot interaction, and multimodal perception.

Research Assistant

Xiangyu Wang

Xiangyu Wang is a Research Assistant at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). His research interests include long-horizon robotic tasks, vision-language-action models, world action models, and robot navigation.

MPhil Student

Xiaoyu Wang

Xiaoyu Wang is currently pursuing an MPhil degree in Robotics Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), and is a member of PAIRS Lab. Her research interests include multimodal large language models and long-horizon robotic tasks.

MPhil Student

Xuanyue Feng

Xuanyue Feng is an MPhil Student at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). His research interests include human-robot interaction, robot navigation, robot learning, and embodied AI.

Intern

Yao Ling

Yao Ling is studying Intelligent Sensing at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She is also serving as an Intern at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). Her research interests include autonomous driving, 4D radar, robotics, and control theory.

MSc Student

Yi Zhang

Yi Zhang is currently pursuing an MSc degree at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). During his bachelor’s studies, he conducted research on AI for CFD and computational mechanics under the supervision of Professor Dapeng Zhang. He is an MSc Student at PAIRS Lab, with a primary research interest in Real2Sim for robot learning.

Intern

Yichun Xiao

Yichun Xiao recently received her Master of Informatics with Honours from the University of Edinburgh. She is currently an Intern at PAIRS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). Her research interests include autonomous driving, 4D radar perception, and sim-to-real transfer for robotics.

Research Assistant

Yongzhi Lin

Yongzhi Lin received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Hunan University, Changsha, China. During his undergraduate studies, he had a paper on robot perception accepted to IROS 2026. He is now a Research Assistant at PARIS Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), where he is expanding his research focus to include robot navigation and mobile manipulation.

MPhil Student

Zhanteng Wu

At PAIRS Lab, Zhanteng Wu researches reinforcement learning, embodied AI, and lightweight AI for edge devices while pursuing his degree at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).