Chuanfang Ning

Msc Student in Robotics @ EPFL

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

About me

I am currently a master student in Robotics at EPFL, Switzerland. I am working as a research assistant at BioRob on deep learning methods for furniture skeleton localisation, which is a continuation to my semester project on Omnibot: Mobile furniture baseline development supervised by Prof. Ijspeert, Dr. Bolotnikova and Dr. Crespi in Fall, 2021. In Fall 2020, I conducted my semester project at Ramdya Lab on improving an automated system for optogenetic experimentation supervised by Prof. Ramdya, Dr. Lobato and Dr. Morales.

I received my double bachelor degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Tongji University, China and University of Applied Sciences Aachen, Germany. During that period, I worked on automatic real & synthetic 6D-pose detection dataset generation with Prof. Kallweit, Heiko Engemann and Intelligent Industry 4.0 with Prof. Nan Xie.

“Instead of codes that are only survivable on a computer, I prefer my efforts to be shown vividly beyond the screen.” For this reason, I didn’t specialize in algorithms or coding only but managed to get down to real robots and to be interdisciplinary. My main research interest is in incorporating state-of-art algorithms to help robotic system perceive human behaviours and react smartly and interactively, which is crucial for social and service robots.