Xin Zhou
Postdoctoral Research Associate
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolXin Zhou is a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London specializing in haptic interfaces and tactile sensing for robotics, blending mechanical design, control systems, and machine learning to enable robot touch. With a decade of technical experience and a PhD in Robotics from Imperial, Xin bridges academic rigor and applied R&D to advance both human and robotic sense of touch. Their work in the Manipulation and Touch Lab focuses on building tactile hardware and ML pipelines that make high-bandwidth contact information usable for control. Previously a project owner at Motius, Xin has hands-on product and project leadership experience, from tech stack choice to code reviews and client-facing delivery. An open-source enthusiast, they favor reproducible research and practical toolchains that accelerate sensor-driven robotics. Based in the UK and multilingual in engineering domains, Xin combines deep experimental skills with a knack for turning tactile data into actionable robot behaviors.
10 years of coding experience
PhD, Robotics, PhD, Robotics at Imperial College LondonAbitur (High School Certificate), Abitur (High School Certificate) at Deutsche Schule Shanghai
German, Chinese, English
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
Windrocer/olb_gr
Dec 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
Windrocer/Windrocer.github.io
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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