Simplify Productivity
Robots that take on everyday labor — in warehouses and in homes — so human hours go somewhere better.
Logistics
Household
Dr. Chuang Yu
CEO LatenCore AI
Cambridge, UK
Amplify Productivity
Robots that run experiments, close loops, and accelerate scientific discovery.
AI+robot for Science
Research Experience
2023 – 2025
Honorary Senior Research Fellow · Research Fellow · University College London, UK
Focus: Multimodal AI and representation learning.
With Prof. Nadia Berthouze, Director of UCL Interaction Centre.
2024 – 2025
Research Fellow · University of Southampton, UK
School of Electronics and Computer Science.
Focus: Intelligent aircraft maintenance systems with AI and AR under UKRI Innovate UK, on the AugmentAero project.
With Dr. Haiming Liu (Director of the Centre for Machine Intelligence) and Prof. Dame Wendy Hall (DBE, FRS, FREng, FCGI; Director of the Web Science Institute).
2024 – 2025
Visiting Researcher · MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence.
Focus: Working with Prof. Youcheng Sun on multimodal foundation model.
2022 – 2023
Co-Investigator · UKRI TAS Integrated Project, UK
Focus: Human-aware robot manipulation.
2021 – 2023
Research Associate · University of Manchester, UK
Cognitive Robotics Lab (COROLAB).
Focus: Trustworthy and cognitive robotics and AI.
On the UKRI TAS Node in Trust (funding).
With Prof. Angelo Cangelosi, co-director and founder of the Manchester Centre for Robotics and AI.
2017 – 2021
Ph.D., Robotics and AI · Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Focus: Robotics, generative models, and multimodal AI.
Supervised by Prof. Adriana Tapus, Director of the Doctoral School of Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris).
Publications
Full list on Google Scholar.
Haochen Huang, Yue Su, Xin Sun, Moonisa Ahsan, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Irene Viola, Zhaochun Ren, Chuang Yu, Aneta Lisowska, Artem Belopolsky, Koen Hindriks, Pablo Cesar, Junxiao Wang, Jiahuan Pei
LEGO Co-builder: Exploring Fine-Grained Vision-Language Modeling for Multimodal LEGO Assembly Assistants
ICMI 2026 — 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
Chuang Yu, Baris Serhan, Angelo Cangelosi
ToP-ToM: Trust-aware Robot Policy with Theory of Mind
IEEE ICRA 2024 — International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Chuang Yu, Baris Serhan, Marta Romeo, Angelo Cangelosi
Robot Theory of Mind with Reverse Psychology
Companion of ACM/IEEE HRI 2023
Chuang Yu, Guanyu Huang, Shuang Wu
Social Robot Nonverbal Vocalization System with Large Language Model
UK Speech 2023
Chuang Yu, Yifu Liu, Bruna Petreca, Sharon Baurley, Nadia Berthouze
Textile Touch Gesture Recognition with Graph Representation of EMG
ACII 2023 — 2nd Workshop on Affective Human-Robot Interaction
Chuang Yu, Heng Zhang, Zhegong Shangguan, Xiaoxuan Hei, Angelo Cangelosi, Adriana Tapus
Speech-driven Robot Face Action Generation with Deep Generative Model for Social Robots
International Conference on Social Robotics, Springer 2022
Chuang Yu, Changzeng Fu, Rui Chen, Adriana Tapus
First Attempt of Gender-free Speech Style Transfer for Genderless Robot
Companion of ACM/IEEE HRI 2022
Chuang Yu, Adriana Tapus
SRG3: Speech-driven Robot Gesture Generation with GAN
ICARCV 2020 — 16th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics & Vision
Chuang Yu, Adriana Tapus
Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Thermal and RGB-D Cameras for Human-Robot Interaction
Companion of ACM/IEEE HRI 2020
Chuang Yu, Adriana Tapus
Interactive Robot Learning for Multimodal Emotion Recognition
International Conference on Social Robotics, Springer 2019
Chuang Yu
Emotion Detection from Gait and Thermal Face for Social Robot
Journée de l’ED Interfaces 2018
Best Poster PrizePoster
Chuang Yu, Adriana Tapus
Human Emotion Detection based on Gait Data and Facial Thermal Images
Journée « Robotique & I.A. » 2018
Oral PresentationProgramme
Chuang Yu, Helen Hastie, Angelo Cangelosi
Human-aware Robot Social Behaviour Dynamic for Trustworthy Human-Robot Interaction
IROS 2022 Workshop on Social and Cognitive Interactions for Assistive Robotics (SCIAR)
Xingrui Gu, Chuyi Jiang, Erte Wang, Zekun Wu, Qiang Cui, Leimin Tian, Lianlong Wu, Siyang Song, Chuang Yu
CauSkelNet: Causal Representation Learning for Human Behaviour Analysis
FG 2025 — 19th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition
AcceptedCorresponding AuthorarXiv
Zhegong Shangguan, Chuang Yu, Wenjie Huang, Zexuan Sun, Adriana Tapus
What Do I Look Like? A Conditional GAN Based Robot Facial Self-Awareness Approach
International Conference on Social Robotics, Springer 2022
Zhegong Shangguan, Chuang Yu, Adriana Tapus
What Do I Look Like? Dataset for Social Robot Facial Expression Self-Awareness
Workshop at ACM/IEEE HRI 2022
Zhegong Shangguan, Mengyuan Ding, Chuang Yu, Chaona Chen, Adriana Tapus
Robot Self-Recognition via Facial Expression Sensorimotor Learning
IEEE RO-MAN 2023 — 32nd International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication
Heng Zhang, Chuang Yu, Xiaoxuan Hei, Adriana Tapus
Semantic Gesture in Robot Humor: A New Dimension to Enhance the Humor Expression
Companion of ACM/IEEE HRI 2024
Xiaoxuan Hei, Chuang Yu, Heng Zhang, Adriana Tapus
A Bilingual Social Robot with Sign Language and Natural Language
Companion of ACM/IEEE HRI 2024
Chuande Liu, Chuang Yu, Bingtuan Gao, Adriana Tapus
Towards a Balancing Safety Against Performance Approach in Human-Robot Co-Manipulation for Door-Closing Emergencies
Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2021
Chuande Liu, Bingtuan Gao, Chuang Yu, Adriana Tapus
Self-Protective Motion Planning for Mobile Manipulators in a Dynamic Door-Closing Workspace
Industrial Robot: An International Journal, 2021
Hongbo Zhu, Chuang Yu, Angelo Cangelosi
Explainable Emotion Recognition for Trustworthy Human-Robot Interaction
Workshop at ACM/IEEE HRI 2022
Yuanbo Hou, Siyang Song, Chuang Yu, Wenwu Wang, Dick Botteldooren
Audio Event-Relational Graph Representation Learning for Acoustic Scene Classification
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2023
Lanmiao Liu, Chuang Yu, Siyang Song, Zhidong Su, Adriana Tapus
Human Gesture Recognition with a Flow-based Model for Social Robot
Companion of ACM/IEEE HRI 2023
Hongbo Zhu, Chuang Yu, Angelo Cangelosi
Affective Human-Robot Interaction with Multimodal Explanations
International Conference on Social Robotics, Springer 2022
Corresponding AuthorFinalist Best Student PaperSpringer
Heng Zhang, Chuang Yu, Adriana Tapus
Towards a Framework for Social Robot Co-speech Gesture Generation with Semantic Expression
International Conference on Social Robotics, Springer 2022
Heng Zhang, Chuang Yu, Adriana Tapus
Why Do You Think This Joke Told by Robot Is Funny? The Humor Style Matters
IEEE RO-MAN 2022 — 31st International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication
Teaching & Talks
- 2019ROB311 — Robotics + AI, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
- 2020ROB311 — Robotics + AI, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
- 2020SoBo — Social Robotics, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
- 2023COMP61352 — Cognitive Robotics, University of Manchester
- 2024PSYC0021 — Affective Interaction, University College London
- 2020Invited talk, NanChang Institute of Technology — Human-centered Robotics
- 2022Invited talk, Hohai University — Human and Robot Behavior with AI
- 2022Invited talk, Cognitive Robotics Summer School, Hong Kong Polytechnic University — Human/Robot Behavior Understanding and Generation with Deep Learning
- 2022Tutorial, 4th workshop at EU Horizon 2020 Traincrease — Face Robotics and Human2Robot Face Mapping
Service
Professional associations
- Founder — Talk on Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)
- Founder — OpenGRO (Open General Robotics)
- Youth Committee, ICACHI — International Chinese Association of Computer Human Interaction
- Youth Committee, GCI — Society of Chinese Computer Scientists in Germany
Conferences & journals
- 1st Workshop on Affective Human-Robot Interaction, ACII 2022 Corresponding proposer
- 2nd Workshop on Affective Human-Robot Interaction, ACII 2023 Organizer
- 3rd Workshop on Affective Human-Robot Interaction, ACII 2024 Organizer
- Special Issue, Human-Like Locomotion and Manipulation, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics Organizer
- Special Session, Perceiving, Generating and Interpreting Affect in HRI, Frontiers in Robotics and AI Topic Coordinator