Fei Liu
Assistant Professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolFei Liu is an assistant professor and robotics researcher with 11 years of experience developing autonomy for biomedical and surgical robots, blending academic rigor with industry practice from roles at UC San Diego, IIT, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, and ROBO Medical. Her work spans modeling, control, dynamics, planning, simulation (including differentiable position-based dynamics and adjoint methods), perception, and real-to-sim transfer for soft and articulated objects, validated on platforms from da Vinci and Franka to catheter and underwater arms. She earned a PhD in Mechatronics from INSA de Lyon and has deep hands-on experience in teleoperation, haptics, SLAM, and tendon-driven surgical mechanisms. Based in Knoxville, she brings proven startup engineering experience—leading control and project work for surgical ESD robots—alongside a research portfolio focused on making deformable-object simulation and control both differentiable and deployable. An under-the-radar strength is her cross-domain fluency in ROS-based systems and constrained solvers integrated with GPU tooling like NVIDIA Flex and Warp.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de LyonBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityGithub contributions (2)
drfeiliu/pioneer3_control_ros
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:62 commits in 28 days
drfeiliu/example-HW
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
IT'S JUST A TEST
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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