NG CHI KIT

NG CHI KIT

CUHK

About Me

Hi! I’m Chi Kit Ng (Justin), a PhD student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in Electronic Engineering, supervised by Prof. Hongliang Ren in IMMlab.
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

Previous research experiences

Northwestern University, AIML Lab, Supervised by Prof. Ping Guo

  • Optical Meta-grating for Snapshot Multi-spectral Imaging, (ASPE 2025, Oral)

CUHK EE Image Processing Lab, supervised by Prof. Thierry Blu

CUHK AIoT Lab, supervised by Prof. Guoliang Xing and Prof. Xiaomin Ouyang

🔥 News

  • 10.2025: Our SoftVisioBots team won the The First Place Award in ACM MM 2025 RoboSoft Workshop! Thanks all teammates~
  • 10.2025: CAN-DRL accepted by IEEE-RoBio 2025 (Award Finalist).
  • 8.2025: EndoVLA accepted by CoRL 2025 (spotlight).
  • 6.2025: JEDP accepted by IEEE-IROS-2025 (Oral).
  • 12.2024: 🎉 Establish personal webpage

📝 Publications

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2025 The First Place Award in ACM MM 2025 RoboSoft Workshop
  • 2025 IEEE-RoBio Award Finalist
  • 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