09:00 – 09:15 | Registration

09:15 – 09:30 | Opening Remarks
Dr. Dandan Zhang, Assistant Professor, Imperial College London
Introduction to the Multi-Scale Embodied Intelligence Lab

09:30 – 10:00 | Research Spotlight

Dr. Qingbiao Li, Assistant Professor, University of Macau
Talk: “Embodied Artificial Intelligence for Surgical Robotics”
20 min Talk + 10 min Q&A

Session 1: Trustworthy Perception, Interaction, and Robotic Systems

Chair (In-person): Dr. Dandan Zhang

Co-Chair (Online): Wen Fan

*10:00 – 10:40 | Keynote Speaker: Dr. Majid Taghavi
Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London
Talk: “Intelligent Soft Actuation Technologies”
30 min Talk + 10 min Q&A

*10:40 – 11:20 | Keynote Speaker: Dr. Shan Luo
Reader, King’s College London
Talk Title: TBC
30 min Talk + 10 min Q&A

11:20 – 12:00 | Lab Tour
White City Campus

12:00 – 12:20 | Invited Talk: Wen Fan
Talk: “Digital Twin-Driven Mixed Reality with Haptic Rendering and Tactile Perception”

12:20 – 13:20 | Networking Lunch

Session 2: Trustworthy AI and Computational Intelligence in Healthcare

Chair (In-person): Dr. Dandan Zhang
Co-Chair (Online): Lan Wei

13:20 – 13:40 | Invited Talk: Wei Lan
Talk: “Machine Learning-Based Perception of Optical Microrobots”

13:40 – 14:00 | Invited Talk: Zongcai Tan
Talk: “Machine Learning-Based Simulation and Interaction of Optical Microrobots”

*14:00 – 14:40 | Keynote Speaker: Prof. Sabine Hauret
Talk: “Swarm Engineering Across Scales”

14:40 – 15:00 | Invited Talk: Nitirak Rayabphand
Talk: “Magni-DOME: A Platform for High-Resolution Light-Based and Magnetic Contactless Microfabrication”

*15:00 – 15:40 | Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kelly Zhang
Talk Title: TBC

15:40 – 16:00 | Invited Talk: Junhong Chen
Talk: “Trustworthy Embodied AI for Surgical Robots”

16:00 – 16:30 | Invited Talk: Dr. Yingying Fang
Talk Title: TBC​

16:30 – 17:30 | Networking Event