Kefeng Huang 黄克峰

kefhuang AT outlook.com

I am currently a PhD student at the Robot Assisted Living Lab, University of York, supervised by Dr. Jihong Zhu, Prof. Andy Tyrrell and Prof. Ian J.S. Fairlamb. I was a research intern at Tencent Robotics X, supervised by Dr. Tingguang Li. I obtained my bachelor and master degree with first-class honours in Computer Science at UCL. My research interests lie in robot learning, focusing on robotic manipulation and perception. I am currently exploring imitation learning and developing methods enabling robots to conduct chemistry experiments. My work aims to advance intelligent and adaptive robotic systems.

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Updates

Aug 2024Our poster have won the Unitree Award for Best Poster at TAROS 2025.

Nov 2024I joined University of York as a PhD student

May 2024I started as a research intern at Tencent Robotics X

Publications

TARMAC: A Taxonomy for Robot Manipulation in Chemistry

Kefeng Huang, Jonathon Pipe, Alice E. Martin, Tianyuan Wang, Barnabas A. Franklin, Andy M. Tyrrell, Ian J. S. Fairlamb, Jihong Zhu

Submitted to IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine

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Rise of the Robochemist

Jihong Zhu, Kefeng Huang, Jonathon Pipe, Chris Horbaczewsky, Andy Tyrrell, and Ian J. S. Fairlamb

eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 86, September 2025

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VLM-TDP: VLM-guided Trajectory-conditioned Diffusion Policy for Robust Long-Horizon Manipulation

Kefeng Huang*, Tingguang Li*, Yuzhen Liu, Zhe Zhang, Jiankun Wang, Lei Han

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Teaching

COMP0037, Robotic System - Teaching Assistant at UCL
COMP0128, Robotic Control Theory and Systems - Teaching Assistant at UCL
COMP0129, Robotic Sensing, Manipulation and Interaction - Teaching Assistant at UCL
COMP0202, Mathematics for Robotics and AI - Teaching Assistant at UCL