Ze Ji
Chair Professor In Robotics And Embodied Intelligence at Royal Academy of Engineering
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolZe Ji is a robotics and autonomous systems leader with 14 years of experience bridging academic research and industrial R&D, now leading the MSc Programme and RAIM group at Cardiff University. His work spans SLAM, computer vision, tactile interfaces, sound localisation, and semantic ontology, with a track record of turning research prototypes into demonstrable, product-ready systems at Dyson, Lenovo and in marine autonomous platforms. He combines deep theoretical grounding (PhD on tangible acoustic interfaces) with hands-on delivery—winning sea trials, a Lenovo robot prototype demo to senior execs, and industry collaborations as an RAEng Industrial Fellow. Known for integrating multi-sensor perception and behaviour control, he also advances lab-to-industry translation through cross-cutting AI and robotics initiatives and co-investigator roles in interdisciplinary research centres.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Tangible Acoustic Interfaces for Computer Human Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Tangible Acoustic Interfaces for Computer Human Interaction at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddMSc, Computing, MSc, Computing at University of Birmingham
English, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
journal7
open-access6
creative-commons6
academia5
yarp2
ros2
robotics2
marine1
simulation1
autonomous-robots1
hosting1
questions-and-answers1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Cardiff-Robotics-Laboratory/Docs
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
jizecn/iiwa_stack
Dec 2018 - May 2019
ROS Indigo/Kinetic metapackage for the KUKA LBR IIWA R800/R820 (7/14 Kg).
Contributions:1 push in 5 months
ros
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