Regular biography
Prof LAI, Jiewen 賴捷文 is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Their research interests include soft robotics, biomedical robotics, mechatronics, robot perception, sensorimotor control, robophysics, and robot intelligence. Prof LAI holds a B.Eng. from WUST, China, an M.Sc. from CUHK, and a Ph.D. from PolyU. They are a member of SrMCMES and MIEEE. For more information, visit their profile page at https://www.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/en-gb/people/academic-staff/professors/prof-lai-jiewen or contact them at jwlai@ee.cuhk.edu.hk.
Scholar-generated biography
Jiewen Lai is a researcher specializing in Robotics, with a focus on Continuum Robots, Robot Design, Modeling, and Medical Robotics. Their work explores the development and application of soft robotic systems for surgical and medical tasks, including automated blood suction, suture thread detection, and embryo manipulation. Lai's research integrates advanced modeling, control strategies, and vision-based systems to enhance the precision and adaptability of continuum robots in minimally invasive procedures. They also investigate soft robotic navigation, sim-to-real transfer, and dynamic movement primitives for deformable object manipulation. Their contributions span both theoretical and applied aspects of robotic design and control in medical and industrial contexts.