👋🏼 Hi there, I am Zhen Hao!

I am a Robotics Research Engineer @ Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR. I have spent great time working with Dr. Michael Chuah and Dr. Albertus Hendrawan Adiwahono on advancing legged robot capabilities. My research interests lies in Embodied Navigation, Skills Acquisition and Adaptation, 3D Path and Motion Planning, Robot Learning & Foundation Models. My PhD journey will be fully-funded through the A*STAR National Science Scholarship PhD.

Previously, I earned a B.Eng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering with honors (Highest Distinction) from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. My final year thesis has been supervised by Prof. Xie Lihua on Vision-based Robot Navigation via DRL.

I envision mobile robots go anywhere anytime autonomously and intelligently with understanding of self and environment, leveraging the power of machine learning to enhance embodied skills acquisition and adaptation.

Feel free to reach out via email if you would like to connect/collaboration/discuss!

🔥 News

• 2024.06: Extremely honoured to be awarded the A*STAR National Science Scholarship PhD!

📝 Publications

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024.06: A*STAR National Science Scholarship (NSS-PhD, 5-yr funding for Ph.D. study), Singapore
• 2019.08: Dean List’s Academic Year 2018/2019 (Top 5% of the Cohort)
• 2019.06: NTU EEE Partial Financial Award for GEM Explorer
• 2018.08: Dean List’s Academic Year 2017/2018 (Top 5% of the Cohort)
• 2017.07: GCE A-Level High Achiever Award (4A*)

📖 Educations

Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

B.Eng (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Honours (Highest Distinction)

Aug 2017 – Jun 2021

Advisor: Prof. Xie Lihua

Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany

Student Leader, Winter Semester Exchange (Fakultat fur Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik)

Oct 2019 – Mar 2020