Biography

Dr Weiyong Si is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex. He previously worked as a Research Assistant and Associate Lecturer with the School of Engineering, University of the West of England, affiliated with the Bristol Robotics Lab, and received Ph.D degree in Robotics and Machine Learning. He has been working on robot learning, robot control, teleoperation, machine vision, and guidance and navigation of autonomous systems. His research interest lies in the insection between AI and robotics. He currently focuses on robot learning and control, human-robot collaboration, mobile manipulation, and its applications in manufacturing, healthcare, and agriculture.

Dr Weiyong Si has a strong background in robotics and AI. He has practical project experience in intelligent control, machine learning, learning from demonstration, multimodal perception, planning and navigation of intelligent robots. He has led several practical projects, such as robot-assisted medical examination, flexible manufacturing and the navigation and guidance of autonomous UAVs.

He is a member of the Robotics Group. He is an IEEE Member and reviewer for several top journals and conferences including, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, ICRA, IROS etc. He is the co-organising chair and special session chair for 25th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), the local organising Committee of 27th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), and the session chair for ICRA2024. He is a guest editor for a special issue of Frontiers in Robotics and AI focused on exploring the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques to enhance advanced robotic systems. If you are interested in his research, please feel free to reach out to him by email.

Qualifications

• PhD University of the West of England, Bristol (2023)
• MSc Beijing Institute of Technology (2018)

Appointments

University of Essex

• Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (9/2023 - Present)
• Reasearch Assistant, Bristol Robotics Laboratory (1/2020 - 9/2023)
• Associate Lecturer, University of the West of England (9/2022 - 5/2023)