亚色视频

Associate Professor in Computer Science

Renxi's research has been focused on robotics and connected intelligence. He is scientific coordinator of the EU H2020 鈥�5G Enhanced Robot Autonomy鈥� project (5G-ERA) and previously scientific coordinator of the EU FP7 鈥淢ulti-Role Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living鈥� project (SRS).

Teaching Areas

• Software Engineering & Object-Oriented Programming
• Robotics & Cybernetics
• Cloud Computing & Distributed Systems

Research Funding

• 5G Enhanced Robot Autonomy (H2020) Jan 2021 - Jun 2024 GRANT_NUMBER: 101016681. Value:699,500EUR for BED and 6M EUR in total. Role: PI & Project Scientific Coordinator
• Transfer Learning for Event Management (Innovate UK) May 2020 - May 2022 GRANT_NUMBER: KTP011938. Value: 171,412 GBP. Role: PI
• Micro/Nano Robotics for Single Cells (H2020) Jan 2017 - Oct 2022 GRANT_NUMBER: 734174. Value: 153,000 EUR. Role: PI
• SRS for Enlarged European Union (FP7) Jan 2011 - April 2013 GRANT_NUMBER: 287974 PI Value: 49,500 EUR. Role: PI
• Multi-Role Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living (FP7) Feb 2010 - April 2013 GRANT_NUMBER: 247772. Value: 825,289EUR for Cardiff and 5.1M EUR in total. Role: CoI & Project Scientific Coordinator
• Emerging Nanoscopy for Single Entity Characterisation (Horizon Europe) Jan 2023 鈥� Dec 2026. GRANT_NUMBER: 101086226 Value:170,200 EUR Role: CoI
• LIL-based 4D-printing of nanomaterials (Horizon Europe) Jan 2023 鈥� Dec 2026. GRANT_NUMBER: 101086227 Value 142,600: Role: CoI

Publications

Invited Talks and Events

• EuCNC & 6G Summit, 鈥�6G enabled Network Applications for the Future of Connected Robotics鈥�, IEEE Communications Society and European Commission, June 2023
• EuCNC & 6G Summit, 鈥淣etApps for 5G Enhanced Robots鈥�, IEEE Communications Society and European Commission, June 2022
• Invited talk at International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing (ISM-2021), limitations and opportunities of existing 5G & Cloud Robotics, Hagenberg Austria, 2021
• Invited talk at 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership (5G-PPP) Webinar, on 5G Innovations for Verticals, online 2021.
• Invited talk at the Technology-Supported Living at Home, House of Lords, the Palace of Westminster, London, 2012
• Invited talk at the Ageing societies in Europe and// Japan: Policy Responses and Research & Innovation Solutions for Active and Healthy Ageing, Tokyo, 2012
• Invited talk at the European Robotics Forum, Workshop on Assistance robots for the elderly, Sweden, 2011
• Session chair at the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012) for the session of Personal Robots I
• Session chair at the 10th IEEE international Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2012) for the session of Robotics - from Industry to Society

Professional Activities

• Habilitation Reviewer for Brno University of Technology 2023
• External Reviewer for Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong
• External Examiner for Cardiff University
• External PhD Examiner for University of Birmingham in 2016 and University of Plymouth in 2021.
• Internal PhD Examiner for 亚色视频 in 2015, 2017 and 2020.

Awards

• Vice Chancellor鈥檚 Awards Runner Up 2022, Research Project of the Year, 亚色视频, 2022
• Best Paper Award at 17th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES) 2013
• CoTeSys Cognitive Robotics Best Paper Award finalist at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2012

Open-Source Development

• 5G-ERA Middleware for cloud robotics (github.com/5G-ERA/)
• SRS planning module for semi-autonomous control (wiki.ros.org/srs_public)

Contact Details

E: renxi.qiu@beds.ac.uk
Room: A220b, Luton campus