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Professor: LIU Yun-Hui

Professor Yunhui Liu is Choh-Ming Li Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering. He received his B. Eng. degree in Applied Dynamics from Beijing Institute of Technology, China in 1985, his M. Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Osaka University in 1989, and his Ph.D in Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1992. After completing his PhD study, he worked at the Electrotechnical Laboratory, MITI, Japan as a Research Scientist and took part in several Japanese national projects at large on intelligent robots and machine learning. He joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1995 and was promoted to a Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering in 2002. He is currently the Director of the CUHK T Stone Robotics Institute, also the Director of Hong Kong Centre for Logistics Robotics. He is a Fellow of IEEE and HKIE. He was members of the Robotics Society of Japan and of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers. He endeavors to translate research outcomes into a real product in the market, and founded VisionNav Robotics, Cornerstone robotics, and other technology companies.