I am Yan Ma, a Ph.D. student in Electronic Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2023.01–2027.06, expected), advised by Prof. Hongliang Ren. My research combines model-based and learning-based methods to build reliable and efficient autonomous robotic imaging systems.
For research discussions and collaboration, please feel free to contact me at yanloveoat@gmail.com.
📝 Publications
Uncertainty-Aware Cross-Scale Hand-Eye Calibration of 2-D Optical Coherence Tomography Using a Plane Target
Yan Ma, Haitian Lyu, Jiewen Lai, Ruiyang Zhang, Wu Yuan, Hongliang Ren
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 42, pp. 3105–3120, 2026
Plane-based calibration with explicit pose uncertainty and joint optimization on a composite manifold.
Single twistable tendon-driven continuum robots
Jiewen Lai*, Yanjun Liu*, Tian-Ao Ren, Yan Ma, Tao Zhang, Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh, Mark R. Cutkosky, Hongliang Ren
Nature Communications, vol. 17, art. no. 8322, 2026
* Equal contribution.
TII 2024A Wearable, Reconfigurable, and Modular Magnetic Tracking System for Wireless Capsule Robots, Shijian Su, Sishen Yuan, Zhen Li, Yan Ma, Miaomiao Ma, Hongliang RenARSO 2024Navigational Augmented Reality for Robotic Drilling, Yupeng Wang*, Yan Ma*, Hongliang Ren (* Equal contribution.)
📖 Education
- 2023.01 - 2027.06 (expected), Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
- 2018.09 - 2022.06, B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai.
💼 Academic Service
- Reviewer: T-RO, RA-L, T-IP, ICRA, IROS
🛠 Skills
- Robotics: kinematics and dynamics, system calibration, path planning.
- Imitation learning: ACT, Diffusion Policy, and π-series models; demonstration collection, model training, and deployment on real robots.
- Reinforcement learning: PPO, SAC, etc.; Gymnasium, Stable-Baselines3.
- Computational geometry: point cloud and triangle mesh processing.
- Programming and tools: Python, C/C++, MATLAB; Linux, Git, ROS; PyTorch, OpenCV, PCL, Ceres, trimesh; Codex, Cursor, Claude Code.
- Hardware: mechanical design and fabrication; robot arms, cameras, dexterous hands, and motion capture systems.
- English: IELTS 7.5 · CET-6 636.
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