Fan Zhang

Senior Research Scientist at Honda Research Institute EU | Tech leading a research team dedicated to general manipulation

London Area, United Kingdom

About

I am a senior scientist at Honda Research Institute EU and a visiting researcher at Imperial College London. I was an Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow funded by Schmidt Futures. I received my Ph.D. degree from Imperial College London. I accepted a research scientist role at Meta FAIR 2025, later impacted by company-wide restructuring. I tech lead a research team dedicated to general manipulation. My research has been accepted at Science Robotics and T-RO. I have been awarded The UK Best PhD in Robotics Award 2020 1st place held by Advanced Robotics @ Queen Mary, and Best Research Paper (Early Career Researcher), 2025 AI & Robotics Research Awards held by UKRI TAS Hub. More information can be found on my personal website: https://fan6zh.github.io/

Experience

  • Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH (London Area, United Kingdom)
    • Senior Scientist
      Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    • Guest Scientist
      Feb 2024 - Dec 2024 · 11 mos

  • Imperial College London (5 yrs 6 mos)
    • Visiting Researcher
      Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow
      Feb 2023 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Research Associate
      Jan 2021 - Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • PhD at Imperial College London
    Oct 2016 - Nov 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos

    Ph.D. student in the Personal Robotics Lab at the Electrical and Electronic Department, Imperial College London, under the supervision of Prof. Yiannis Demiris (Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies).