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Kefeng Huang 黄克峰

kefhuang AT outlook.com
I am currently a PhD student at the Robot Assisted Living Lab, University of York, supervised by Dr. Jihong Zhu, Prof. Andy Tyrrell and Prof. Ian J.S. Fairlamb. I was a research intern at Tencent Robotics X, supervised by Dr. Tingguang Li. I obtained my bachelor and master degree with first-class honours in Computer Science at UCL, supervised by Prof. Jun Wang. My research interests lie in robot learning, focusing on robotic manipulation and perception. I am currently exploring imitation learning and developing methods enabling robots to conduct chemistry experiments. My work aims to advance intelligent and adaptive robotic systems.

Updates

Aug 2024Our poster have won the Unitree Award for Best Poster at TAROS 2025.
Nov 2024I joined University of York as a PhD student
May 2024I started as a research intern at Tencent Robotics X

Publications

TARMAC: A Taxonomy for Robot Manipulation in Chemistry thumbnail

TARMAC: A Taxonomy for Robot Manipulation in Chemistry

Kefeng Huang, Jonathon Pipe, Alice E. Martin, Tianyuan Wang, Barnabas A. Franklin, Andy M. Tyrrell, Ian J. S. Fairlamb, Jihong Zhu

Under Review

Rise of the Robochemist thumbnail

Rise of the Robochemist

Jihong Zhu, Kefeng Huang, Jonathon Pipe, Chris Horbaczewsky, Andy Tyrrell, and Ian J. S. Fairlamb

eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 86, September 2025

VLM-TDP: VLM-guided Trajectory-conditioned Diffusion Policy for Robust Long-Horizon Manipulation thumbnail

VLM-TDP: VLM-guided Trajectory-conditioned Diffusion Policy for Robust Long-Horizon Manipulation

Kefeng Huang*, Tingguang Li*, Yuzhen Liu, Zhe Zhang, Jiankun Wang, Lei Han

Awards

  • The Unitree Award for Best Poster on Autonomous Systems for Laboratory Experiments - TAROS (2025)
  • Gold Award at UK Chemistry Olympiad - Royal Society of Chemistry (2019)

Patents

  • 机器人控制及模型训练方法、装置、设备及存储介质李珽光, 刘宇真, 黄克峰
    Chinese Patent No: CN119304873A | Status: Under Review | Date: 2024

Teaching

  • COMP0037 Robotic System - Teaching Assistant at UCL
  • COMP0128 Robotic Control Theory and Systems - Teaching Assistant at UCL
  • COMP0129 Robotic Sensing, Manipulation and Interaction - Teaching Assistant at UCL
  • COMP0202 Mathematics for Robotics and AI - Teaching Assistant at UCL

Miscellaneous

Outside of my academic work, I am also deeply passionate about photography and travel. Over the past decade, I’ve explored more than twenty countries, from Iceland to Australia. Photography has long been a creative outlet for me — a way to slow down, observe, and connect with the world beyond research. You can find a selection of my work at kefhuangphoto.com.