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Dr Hoi-Yin Lee (Samantha)

A Hybrid of Mechanical Engineering & Computing

I'm an enthusiastic & detail-oriented Robotics Researcher.

Passionate, Highly Motivated Mechanical & Computing Engineer.
Having a Bias for Action, Breaking down and Tackling complex problems efficiently.

Research Interests: Particles Manipulation, VLM, Multi-Robot Systems, and Automation.

Current Side Project: Can we upgrade the Modern Art?

(Art Upgrading Project with M+ Museum)

About Me

Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow and a lab manager in the Robotic and Machine Intelligence Lab (ROMI-Lab) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), under the guidance of Prof. David Navarro-Alarcon.

Prior to this, I was a PhD student in the ROMI-Lab at PolyU, where I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation in Mechanical Engineering in 2024.

Before that, I had the opportunity to work as a visiting scholar at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the United Kingdom, working under the supervision of Professor Chenguang (Charlie) Yang from the University of Liverpool.

🏆 Recent Achievements 🏆

2025	Best Innovation Merit Award Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center Symposium Project: Iterative Shaping of Multi-Particle Aggregates Based on Action Trees and VLM
2024	Best Poster Award (Second Place) The 10th East Asia Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Workshop Project: Incremental-Based Non-Prehensile Tool Manipulation in Object Retrieval Under Environmental Constraints
2024	Best Presentation Award PolyU Research Student Conference Project: Non-Prehensile Tool-Object Manipulation by Integrating LLM-Based Planning and Manoeuvrability-Driven Controls
2022	Best AI Implementation Award AI x HK OpenCup Project: A Multi-Sensor Interface to improve the Education Quality in Arc Welding Training Tasks
2022	Best Innovation Award Cathay Hackathon Project: Metaverse In-Flight Entertainment
2021	Young Researcher Award CNERC Annual Technical Symposium Outstanding Performance in research.
2020	Rexroth Industry 4.0 Scholarship The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Outstanding Performance in the Robotics Project.

Selected Publications

2024-2025	Iterative Shaping of Multi-Particle Aggregates based on Action Trees and VLM Authors: H.-Y. Lee, P. Zhou, A. Duan, C. Yang, and D. Navarro-Alarcon IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025. Link
2023-2024	Non-Prehensile Tool-Object Manipulation by Integrating LLM-Based Planning and Manoeuvrability-Driven Controls Authors: H.-Y. Lee, P. Zhou, A. Duan, W. Ma, C. Yang, and D. Navarro-Alarcon IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (T-IE), under review.
2021-2022	A Distributed Dynamic Framework to Allocate Collaborative Tasks Based on Capability Matching in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems Authors: H.-Y. Lee, P. Zhou, B. Zhang, L. Qiu, B. Fan, A. Duan, J. Tang, T. L. Lam, and D. Navarro-Alarcon IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (T-CDS), 2023 Link
2021-2022	A Multi-Sensor Interface to Improve the Teaching and Learning Experience in Arc Welding Training Tasks Authors: H.-Y. Lee, P. Zhou, A. Duan, J. Wang, V. Wu, and D. Navarro-Alarcon IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (T-HMS), 2023 Link