Electronic Engineering Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Prof LAI, Jiewen 賴捷文

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Research Assistant Professor
B.Eng. (WUST, China), M.Sc. (CUHK), Ph.D. (PolyU), SrMCMES, MIEEE
homepage Rm 313, Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building phone Tel: +852 3943 4343 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Research Interests:

Soft robotics, biomedical robotics, mechatronics, robot perception, sensorimotor control, robophysics, robot intelligence

 

hyperlink http://www.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/jwlai/

 

 

Resume of Career

Jiewen Lai received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2022. Prior to that, he obtained a master’s degree in mechanical and automation engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017. From April 2022 to June 2023, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at CUHK. In August 2023, he joined the electronic engineering department as a Research Assistant Professor under the University Research Committee Research Assistant Professorship Scheme. He has authored/co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed research papers and a book chapter in the past five years.

Current Research Interests

Soft robotics, biomedical robotics, mechatronics, robot perception, sensorimotor control, robophysics, robot intelligence

Honors and Awards

  • IdeaBooster Fund Award, CUHK, June 2023
  • Dr. Barbara Kwok Young Postdoctoral Researcher Travel Grants Award, March 2023
  • Best Poster Award, ICRA workshop on New Evolutions in Surgical Robotics, May 2023
  • Best Paper Finalist Award, IEEE ROBIO, December 2019

External Service

  • Associate Editor, ICRA’25, ICRA’24
  • Organizing Co-chair, IEEE ICRA workshop on Continuum, Compliant, Cooperative, Cognitive Surgical Robotic Systems in the Embodied AI Era, 2024
  • Guest Editor, Actuators

Taught Course

  • ELEG4701 Intelligent Interactive Robot Practice

Selected Publications in the past 5 years

  1. Z. Min*, J. Lai*, and H. Ren, “How can Large Vision Models Innovate the Robot-Assisted Surgery,” Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, 2025 (in press)
  2. J. Lai, B. Lu, and H. Ren, “Kinematics Concepts in Minimally Invasive Surgical Flexible Robotic Manipulators: State-of-the-Art,” in Handbook of Robotic Surgery, Cambridge, MA: Academic Press, 2025, 27-41
  3. J. Lai, B. Lu, K. Huang, and H. K. Chu, “Gesture-Based Steering Framework for Redundant Soft Robots,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 29 (6), 4651-4663, 2024
  4. J. Lai, T.-A. Ren, W. Yue, S. Su, J. Y.-K. Chan, and H. Ren, “Sim-To-Real Transfer of Soft Robotic Navigation Strategies That Learns from The Virtual Eye-In-Hand Vision,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 20 (2), 2365-2377, 2024
  5. Z. Zhang, A. Zhang, J. Lai, H. Ren, R. Song, Y. Li, M. Q.-H. Meng, Z. Min, “GHMM: Learning Generative Hybrid Mixture Models for Generalized Point Set Registration in Computer-Assisted Orthopedic Surgery,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 6 (3), 1285-1295, 2024
  6. K. Huang, J. Lai, H. Ren, C. Wu, X. Cheng, H. K. Chu, “Large-Scale Selective Micropatterning with Robotics nDEP Tweezers and Hydrogel Encapsulation,” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16 (37), 49973-49984, 2024
  7. Y. Yang, J. Lai, C. Xu, Z. He, P. Jiao, and H. Ren, “A Lightweight Pneumatically Elastic Backbone Structure with Modular Construction and Nonlinear Interaction for Bending Actuators,” Soft Robotics, 11 (1), 57-69, 2024
  8. M. S. Xavier, C. D. Tawk, A. Zolfagharian, J. Pinskier, D. Howard, T. Young, J. Lai, S. M. Harrison, Y. K. Yong, M. Bodaghi, and A. J. Fleming, “Soft pneumatic actuators: A review of design, fabrication, modeling, sensing, control and applications,” IEEE Access, 10, 59442 – 59485, 2022 (ESI Highly Cited Papers in Engineering)
  9. G. Wang, T.-A. Ren, J. Lai, L. Bai, H. Ren, “Domain Adaptive Sim-to-Real Segmentation of Oropharyngeal Organs,” Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 61, 2745-2755, 2023
  10. Z. Cui, W. Ma, J. Lai, H. K. Chu, Y. Guo, “Coupled Multiple Dynamic Movement Primitives Generalization for Deformable Object Manipulation,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7 (2), 5381-5388, 2022
  11. J. Lai, B. Lu, Q. Zhao, and H. K. Chu, “Constrained Motion Planning of A Cable-Driven Soft Robot With Compressible Curvature Modeling,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7 (2), 4013-4820, 2022
  12. Q. Zhao, J. Lai, and H. K. Chu, “Reconstructing External Force on The Circumferential Body of Continuum Robot with Embedded Proprioceptive Sensors,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 69 (12), 13111-13120, 2021
  13. Q. Zhao, J. Lai, K. Huang, X. Hu, and H. K. Chu, “Shape Estimation and Control of A Soft Continuum Robot Under External Payloads,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 27 (5), 2511-2522, 2021
  14. J. Lai, K. Huang, B. Lu, and H. K. Chu, “Verticalized-Tip Trajectory Tracking of A 3d-Printable Soft Continuum Robot: Enabling Surgical Blood Suction Automation,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 27 (3), 1545-1556, 2021
  15. J. Lai, B. Lu, and H. K. Chu, “Variable-Stiffness Control of A Dual-Segment Soft Robot Using Depth Vision,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 27 (2), 1034-1045, 2021
  16. J. Lai, K. Huang, B. Lu, and H. K. Chu*, “Toward vision-based adaptive configuring of a bidirectional two-segment soft continuum manipulator,” in Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), pp. 934-939, 2020.
  17. J. Lai, K. Huang, and H. K. Chu*, “A learning-based inverse kinematics solver for a multi-segment continuum robot in robot-independent mapping,” in Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 576-582, 2019 (Best Paper Finalist Award)
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