Graduated PhDs

Professor Dai has successfully graduated over 35 PhD students who are now faculty members of world-leading universities (e.g., University College London, Queen Mary University London, Purdue University, Wollongong University, Curtin University, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM)), and affiliated with prestigious cooperative companies (e.g., Cambridge Consultants, Goldman Sachs) and becoming successful entrepreneurs (e.g., Movendo Technology Srl., AiTreat Pte Ltd., Novus Altair Ltd., DH-Robotics Technology Co., Ltd., and Dr-SciTech Ltd.).


Permanent Positions In Academia

  • Professor Honghai Liu, IEEE Fellow, Professor, University of Portsmouth, UK

  • Professor Helge Wurdemann, IEEE Member, Associate Professor of University College London, UK

  • Professor Ernesto Rodrigues-Leal, Associate Professor of Tecnológico de Monterrey (University), Mexico

  • Dr. Chin-Hsing Kuo, ASME Member, Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong, Australia.

  • Dr. Lei Cui, Senior Lecturer, ARC DECRA Fellow, Curtin University, Australia

  • Dr. Wei Yao, Senior Lecturer, University of Strathclyde, UK

  • Professor Dongming Gan, ASME Member, Assistant Professor, West Lafayette, Purdue University, USA

  • Dr. Ferdinando Cannella, Head of Industrial Automation Lab, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy

  • Dr. Richard Silversides, Teaching fellow, Imperial College London, UK

  • Dr. Guowu Wei, Lecturer, ASME Member, University of Salford, UK

  • Dr. Ketao Zhang, Lecturer, ASME Member, Queen Mary University London, UK.

  • Dr. Huijuan Feng, Lecturer, University of Northumbria, UK


    • In Industry

  • Dr. Vahid Aminzadeh, Vice President, Goldman Sachs, UK.

  • Dr. Jody Saglia, Co-founder & CTO, Movendo Technology, Italy.

  • Dr. Evangelos Emannuel, Cambridge Consultant, UK

  • Dr. Jie Sun, Co-founder & CEO, DH-Robotics Technology Co., Ltd.

  • Dr. Adnan Niazi, Founder & Managing Director, Novus Altair Ltd. UK

  • Dr. Yun Qin, Head of Database Algorithms, DNA Nudge, London, UK

  • Dr. Chen Qiu, Co-founder & CTO, AiTreat Pte Ltd. Singapore.

  • Dr. Zhenjun Luo, Chief Engineer, Wahaha Mechatronics Research Institute, Hangzhou, China.

  • Dr. Chunsong Zhang, Co-founder & CEO, Dr-SciTech Co., Ltd. Tianjin

  • Dr. Parish Shah, Morgan Stanley, London, UK

  • Dr. Zhao Tang, Co-founder & CTO, Dr-SciTech Co., Ltd. Tianjin.

  • Dr.Xinsheng Zhang, Co-founder & CTO, DH-Robotics Technology Co., Ltd.

  • Shuangjia Xu, Co-founder & COO, DH-Robotics Technology Co., Ltd.

    • Post Doctoral Researchers

  • Dr. Venketesh N. Dubey, 1998-2001, Post-doctoral Research Associate (currently Professor, Bournemouth University, UK)

  • Dr. Tieshi Zhao, 2000-2002, Post-doctoral Research Associate (currently Professor, Yanshan University, China)

  • Dr. Ferdinando Cannella, 2001, Research Associate, (currently Head of Industrial Application, Italian Institute of Technology)

  • Dr. Haiying Xu, 2001-2003, Post-doctoral Research Associate (currently Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.)

  • Dr. Wei Yao, 2007, Post-doctoral Research Associate (currently Senior Lecturer, University of Strathclyde, UK)

  • Dr. Liping Zhang, 2007-2009, Post-doctoral Research Associate (currently Associate Professor, West Lake University, China)

  • Dr. Lei Cui, 2010-2011, Post-doctoral Research Associate (currently Senior Lecturer, Curtin University, Australia)

  • Dr. Guowu Wei, 2009 - 2015, Post-doctoral Research Associate (currently Lecturer, University of Salford, UK)

  • Dr. Ketao Zhang, 2011 - 2015, Post-doctoral Research Associate (currently Lecturer, Queen Mary University London, UK)

  • Dr. Helge Wurdemann, 2012 - 2015, Post-doctoral Research Associate (currently Associate Professor, University College London, UK)

  • Dr. Vahid Aminzadeh, 2012 - 2015, Post-doctoral Research Associate (currently Vice President, Goldman Sachs, UK)

  • Dr. Jie Sun, 2015 - 2018, Post-doctoral Research Associate (currently CEO DH-Robotics Technology Co., Ltd)

  • Mr. Pablo Lopez-Custodio, 2017-2020, Research Assistant (currently Post-doctoral Research Associate, Lincoln University, UK)

  • Dr. Emmanouil Spyrakos, 2019 - 2021, Post-doctoral Research Associate (currently Lecturer, King’s College London, UK)

  • Dr. Shuofei Yang, 2020 - 2021, Post-doctoral Research Associate

    • Visiting Scholars

  • Ruiqing Li, 2002-2003, Professor, North University of China, China.

  • Ligang Yao, 2003-2004, 2010-211, Professor, Fuzhou University, China.

  • Delun Wang, 2004-2005, Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China.

  • Xilun Ding, 2005-2006, Professor, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China.

  • Yali Ma, 2005-2006, Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China.

  • Ganwei Cai, 2010, Professor, Gangxi University, China.

  • Jingshan Zhao, 2011-2012, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China.

  • Daniel Martins, 2011-2012, Professor, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

  • Baixi Liu, 2012-2013, Associate Professor, Xiangtan University, China.

  • Jun Zhang, 2013-2014, Associate Professor, Anhui University of Technology, China.

  • Nikolaos Tsagarakis, 2013-2016, Visiting Professor, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy.

  • Kristan Michael Marlow, 2013-2014, Deakin University Australia.

  • Marco Salerno, 2013-2014, Visiting Student, SSSA, Italy.

  • Volkert van der Wijk, 2015-2016, Visiting Research Fellow, Robotics and Mechatronics Group, University of Twente, The Netherlands.

  • Haiyan Zhang, 2016-2016, Visiting Professor, Purdue University, USA.