Ze Ji

I am a Reader in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the School of Engineering, Cardiff University, and the Group Leader of Robotics and Autonomous Intelligent Machines (RAIM). I am also the Director and Founder of the MSc in Robotics and Intelligent Systems (RIS), the recipient of a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship hosted by Spirent Communications, and a co-founder and co-investigator of IROHMS (the Research Centre for AI, Robotics and Human-Machine Systems), funded by ERDF through WEFO.

I lead the Robotics and Autonomous Systems laboratory, which provides advanced robotic facilities including two Kuka LBR iiwa robots, three Kuka youBots, Unitree robot dogs, Robotnik Vogui+, TurtleBots, and vision systems such as Zivid, Roboception, and RealSense. We have also built two unmanned surface vehicles through student projects. See the facilities page for more details.

I currently serve as an associate editor for:

• IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
• Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science (Robotics section)
• Industrial Robot
• International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM)
• IEEE Access

I received my PhD from Cardiff University, supported by the EC FP6 project TAI-CHI (Tangible Acoustic Interfaces for Computer Human Interaction), which won the best exhibit prize at the EU FP6 exhibition in Helsinki, Finland. Before that, I obtained an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham and a BEng in Electronics Engineering from Jilin University.

I have held a range of roles as a robotics and autonomous systems researcher and engineer in both academia and industry, including positions with Dyson, Lenovo, and Autonomous Surface Vehicles. Earlier in my career, I worked as a research fellow on several EU FP6 and FP7 projects, including TAI-CHI, IWARD, ROBOSKIN, and SRS.