About Me

Hi! I’m Chi Kit Ng (Justin), a PhD student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in Electronic Engineering.
My research focuses on end-to-end autonomous control of robotic endoscopes and intelligent surgical robotics.
I graduated from CUHK EE with First Class Honours, ranking 1/54.

Open Projects @ CUHK EE

I’m happy to cooperate with CUHK EE undergraduates (including FYP), Summer Research Internship (SRI) students, and MSc students (course project or MSc project).

• 🌱 Undergraduates (FYP/Independent Study) — under supervision from Prof. Ren or Prof. Lai or Prof. Gao
• ☀️ Funded CUHK UG Summer Research Internship — see the official program: USRI
• ☀️ CUHK International Summer UG Research Program (SURP) — see the official program: SURP
• 🎓 MSc Projects — scoped research/engineering topics aligned with your interests

Feel free to reach out and discuss ideas!

Example Topics (mix & match)

• Vision-Language-Action (VLA) with Large Language Model (LLM) as backbone
• Robotics+ such as continuum robot (CR) and dual-arm robot with Augmented reality (AR) applied to medical applications
• Reinforcement Learning / Diffusion-based action models for trajectory generation
• Soft/continuum robot control (tendon-driven, Cosserat models, stiffness tuning modeling)
• Perception: RGB/OCT/HSI sensing, sensor fusion, FBG-based shape estimation
• Sim-to-Real: SOFA/Blender simulation, domain randomization, data engines
• Safety & evaluation: risk maps, autonomy metrics, clinical task benchmarking

🔥 News

• 8.2025: EndoVLA accepted by CoRL 2025.
• 6.2025: Co-first author paper JEDP accepted by IEEE-IROS-2025.
• 12.2024: 🎉 Establish personal webpage

📝 Publications

• CoRL 2025 EndoVLA: Dual-Phase Vision-Language-Action Model for Autonomous Tracking in Endoscopy, Chi kit Ng^*, Long Bai^*, Guankun Wang^*, Yupeng Wang, Huxin Gao, Kun Yuan, Chenhan Jin, Tieyong Zeng, Hongliang Ren.

• IEEE-ARSO-2024 Navigation of Tendon-driven Flexible Robotic Endoscope through Deep Reinforcement Learning, Chi kit Ng, Huxin Gao, Tian-Ao Ren, Jiewen Lai, Hongliang Ren.

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024 CUHK Capstone Project Competition Grand Final 2024 (Creative Award)
• 2022,23,24 CUHK Faculty Dean’s List
• 2021,22,23,24 CUHK United College Head’s List
• 2024 HKEX Foundation Scholarship for Biotechnology and Innovation
• 2024 Professor Chung Yu To Memorial Scholarship
• 2023 Chiang Chen Industrial Scholarship
• 2022,23,24 Suga Intl Holdings Limited Scholarship
• 2022 Chen Chih-Fan Scholarship
• 2021 Talent Development Scholarship by HKSAR government

📖 Education

• Sep 2024 – Aug 2028 (expected) — PhD, CUHK, Hong Kong
• Aug 2020 – Jul 2024 — BEng (1st Class Honours, rank 1/54), CUHK, Hong Kong
• Sep 2017 – Jul 2020 — Pui Ching Middle School, Hong Kong

👨‍🔬 Services

• Reviewer: IEEE/RSJ IROS; MICCAI Workshops
• Activities: MC at CUHK EE Graduation Dinner; MC at CUHK EE Christmas Dinner
• Volunteer: Clinical assistant at a free clinic (with Prof. Cheung)

👨‍🏫 Teaching

Teaching Assistantships

• 2024–2025 Spring — ELEG3103 Robotic Perception and Intelligence
• 2024–2025 Fall — ELEG2202 Fundamentals of Electric Circuits

Mentees

• Sean Kong Ko Lun — website · UG intern → PhD student, CityU

🗣️ Languages

• Chinese: Cantonese, Mandarin, Hakka
• English