Hongbin Liu

Prof Hongbin Liu is the Director for the Centre of AI and Robotics (CAIR), Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Automation (CASIA), Director of the group for intelligent technology for minimally invasive surgery. Prof Liu is also an adjunct Reader and director of the Haptic Mechatronics and Medical Robotics (HaMMeR) lab at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London (KCL), UK. Prof Liu’s group has been focusing on research and development of surgical robotic systems with advanced haptic sensing and embodied artificial intelligence, to enable safer and more effective minimally invasive surgery via narrow spaces. Prof Liu’s research has led to the clinical translation of a series of technologies for neurosurgery, respiratory interventions, as well as GI surgeries. He received the prestigious BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize in 2022 for his invention of a flexible robotic system for minimally invasive neurosurgery which has addressed and tackled the surgical difficulties of treating the deep brain lesions.