Prof. David NAVARRO

Prof. David Navarro received his PhD degree in Mechanical and Automation Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2014. After graduation, he joined the CUHK T Stone Robotics Institute, first as a Postdoctoral Fellow and later as a Research Assistant Professor (2014-2017). Since 2017, he has been with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), where he is currently an Associate Professor of Robotics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. At PolyU, he leads the Robotics and Machine Intelligence Laboratory (ROMI Lab); His research focuses on fundamental problems involving the planning, learning, and control of robot motion tasks. He is also an Investigator of the Research Institute of Smart Ageing and a Fellow of the Institute for Higher Education Research and Development. He has also held visiting positions at foreign universities, such as the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and the University of Toulon, France. David is a Senior Member of the IEEE and currently serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, and a Technical Editor of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. At PolyU, David teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in robotics, nonlinear dynamics, and control systems.