Yanjun Liu, Owen / 刘彦君
I am a Ph.D. student from Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), under the supervision of Prof. Hongliang Ren and Prof. Jiewen Lai.
My researches focus on the intersection of soft robotics, medical robotics, human-robot interaction and robotic control systems. Specifically, I am interested in developing continuum robot-assisted surgical procedures in ENT, OB/GYN, urology etc. For inquiries or collaboration, you can contact me via email yanjunliu at link.cuhk.edu.hk.
News
[11/2025] Our team has won the Soft Robotics Embodied Intelligence Challenge in IROS 2025.
[08/2025] One paper awarded Best Student Paper Finalist in ICBIR 2025.
Selected Publications
Journal Papers
- Jiewen Lai†, Yanjun Liu†, Tian-Ao Ren, Yan Ma, Tao Zhang, Jeremy Teoh, Mark R. Cutkosky, Hongliang Ren* “Twistable Soft Continuum Robots”. Journal.
- Jiewen Lai†, Tian-ao Ren†, Pengfei Ye, Yanjun Liu and Hongliang Ren*. “Gravity-Aware Proactive Joint-Level Compensation for Portable Soft Slender Robots Using a Single IMU and Real-Time Simulation,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 2025. [To appear]
- Yanjun Liu, and Wenming Yang*, “Explicit3D: Graph Network with Spatial Inference for Single Image 3D Object Detection,” Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 124, pp. 117120, 2024. [URL]
- Yanjun Liu, Wenming Yang* and Qingmin Liao, “DiffVein: A Unified Diffusion Network for Finger Vein Segmentation and Authentication,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 2024, pp. 1.[URL]
Conference Papers
- F. Wang, S. Sun and Y. Liu, “A Bi-directional Interactive System of Sign Language and Visual Speech Based on Portable Devices,” in *IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2019, pp. 1071-1076.[URL]
- F. Wang, Z. Zeng, S. Sun and Y. Liu, “Diversity amplification and data generation of Chinese Sign Language based on Generative Adversarial Network,” in *IEEE International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER), 2020, pp. 139-145.[URL]
Education
Ph.D. student, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2025-Present
M.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University, 2021-2024
B.Eng. in Robotics, Northeastern University, 2017-2021
Awards & Honors
1st Place, Soft Robotics Embodied Intelligence Challenge, IROS 2025
Best Student Paper Finalist, ICBIR 2025
Top 10 Honor Undergraduate Student, 2020
BSEF Outstanding Student Scholarship, 2020
National Scholarship China, 2018, 2019
Teaching
- ENGG4701 Intelligent Interactive Robot Practice (2025 R1, Teaching Assistant)