Fangqiang Ding

about me

I am a final-year PhD student from the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, sponsored by the EPSRC CDT in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, supervised by Dr. Chris Xiaoxuan Lu and Prof. Barbara Webb.

🙏 I will graduate in Summer 2025 and am open to the job market.

My research focuses on advancing the robustness, efficiency, and privacy-awarness of perception systems for Physical AI. These efforts support autonomous system like mobile robots, self-driving cars, AIoT and xR-integrated systems, aiming to facilitate their widespread, long-horizon and non-intrusive deployment in the wild. Currently, my works primarily involve the robust imaging modalities, e.g., mmWave radar and thermal camera, leveraging their unique sensing resilience to cope with adverse weather, variable illumination and occlusion challenges in real world. I was honored to be awarded the 2025 RSS Pionner for my research in Robust Spatial Perception with 4D Radar for Mobile Autonomy.

Before coming to Edinburgh, I received my B.Eng degree with the highest honour - Academic Star and was awarded double National Scholarships from Tongji University (2017-2021).