David is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the Principal Investigator of the Robotics and Machine Intelligence Laboratory (ROMI-Lab). His research mostly focusses on modelling and control of robot motion tasks. The constant goal of his work has been the establishment of methodologies that provide robots with advanced sensorimotor capabilities. David is a Senior Member of the IEEE and currently serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).
In 2014, David received his PhD degree in mechanical and automation engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where he was supervised by Prof. Yun-hui Liu, and received the prestigious CONACYT Fellowship during his doctoral studies. David worked from 2014–2017 at the CUHK T Stone Robotics Institute, first as a Postdoctoral Fellow and then as a Research Assistant Professor.
At PolyU, David teaches subjects on robotics, nonlinear dynamics, and automatic control. He has received various teaching awards and has led several teaching initiatives on the development of “digital robotic platforms for online education”.