Hello there, I’m Haichao Liu (刘海超), currently a Ph.D. student at Robot Motion Planning and Control Lab of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) (2022-Present), supervised by Prof. Jun MA, Prof. Ming LIU and Prof. Shaojie SHEN. Prior to this, I received my Master’s degree (2020-2022) from the Institute of Intelligent Control and Systems and the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System at Harbin Institute of Technology, where I was supervised by Prof. Huijun GAO and Prof. Weiyang LIN. I received my bachelor’s degree (2016-2020) at Northeastern University, majoring in Robot Engineering, Faculty of Robot Science and Engineering.

Research Interests

My research interests include the areas of Robotics and Autonomous Driving, with focus on:

• Motion Planning and Control for Autonomous Driving
• Convex and Non-Convex Optimization
• Safe Learning and Decision-Making for Robot Manipulation

I am always open to potential collaborations, please feel free to contact me at haichao.liu@connect.ust.hk.

Internship

• Industrial Robot R&D, Siasun Robot&Automation Co., Ltd from Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Selected Honors

• HKUST Postgraduate Scholarship (Guangzhou Pilot Scheme), 2022, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Outstanding Graduate, 2022, Harbin Institute of Technology
• Chiang Chen Oversea Research Scholarship, 2022, Chiang Chen Industrial Charity Foundation
• He Gao Scholarship, 2021, Robotics Institute, Harbin Institute of Technology
• Chiang Chen Scholarship, 2021, School of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology
• Outstanding League Cadre, 2021, Harbin Institute of Technology
• First-class Scholarship for PG, 2020, 2021, Harbin Institute of Technology
• Outstanding UG Graduation Thesis, 2020, Faculty of Robot Science and Engineering, NEU
• Outstanding Graduate (Cadre), 2020, Northeastern University
• First-class Scholarship for UG, 2020, Northeastern University
• National Inspirational Scholarship, 2017, 2018, 2019, Ministry of Education of P.R. China
• Outstanding Student, 2017, 2018, 2019, Northeastern University
• Michelin Scholarship, 2017, Northeastern University
• Second Prize of the China University Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), 2018, China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Community Services

• Technical Reviewer: Aerospace Science and Technology, IV Symposium, ICRA, IROS, ROBIO, IECON
• Head of Department of Internal Affairs of HKUST-GSAA