Fangqiang Ding

about me

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

🙏 I will graduate in Summer 2025 and am actively seeking a postdoctoral or industrial position, starting from my graduation.

My research focuses on advancing the robustness, efficiency, and privacy-awarness of perception systems for embodied AI. These efforts support applications in mobile robots, autonomous vehicles, AIoT and xR-integrated systems, aiming to facilitate their widespread, long-term and non-intrusive deployment in the wild. Currently, my works mainly involve mmWave imaging radar and thermal camera, leveraging their unique sensing resilience to cope with adverse weather and illumination conditions in real world.

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).

👉 I am looking for self-motivated UG/Ms students to work with me and my collaborators at UoE/UCL/ETH/MIT/Cambridge/NTU on cutting-edge research projects, including but not limited to:

• Mapping: All-day scene completion with thermal imaging for mobile autonomy
• Scene Understanding: Robust and low-cost perception enabled by surrounding 4D radars
• Human Motion: Human motion reconstruction from mmWave raw data via Diffusion
• Representation Learning: Pre-trained transformer for heterogeneous radar sensors

Support in the form of sufficient computational and sensory tools, robot platform, alongside practical supervision and direction, is available. Please fill the form here if you are interested.

👉 I am actively looking for a research intern position this year. Shoot me an email if you think I am a good fit!