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+: AR/VR
- Reinforcement Learning
- Soft/continuum robot control (tendon-driven, Cosserat models, stiffness tuning modeling)
- AIoT: Artificial Intelligence + Internet of Things
- Federated Learning (FL)
- AI Chips
- Cross-border Communication
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
- 3.2026: Our embodied endoscopy dataset is available via Nvidia Open-H-Embodiment collection. Thanks all contributors~
- 2.2026: 3 papers accepted by
IEEE-ICRA. Thanks all contributors~ - 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(Best Paper Award in Robotics). - 8.2025: EndoVLA accepted by
CoRL 2025(spotlight). - 6.2025: JEDP accepted by
IEEE-IROS-2025(Oral). - 12.2024: 🎉 Establish personal webpage
📝 Publications
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RoBio 2025 (Oral)Contact-Aided Navigation of Flexible Robotic Endoscope Using Deep Reinforcement Learning in Dynamic Stomach, Chi kit Ng, Huxin Gao, Tian-Ao Ren, Jiewen Lai, Hongliang Ren†. -
IROS 2025 (Oral)Jacobian Exploratory Dual-Phase Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Endoluminal Navigation of Deformable Continuum Robots, Yu Tian*, Chi kit Ng*, Hongliang Ren†. -
CoRL 2025EndoVLA: 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†. -
ARSO 2024Navigation 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
- 2025 The First Place Award in ACM MM 2025 RoboSoft Workshop
- 2025 IEEE-RoBio Best Paper Award
- 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: MIR; CVPR; ECCV; IROS; ICRA; RoboSoft
👨🏫 Teaching
Teaching Assistantships
- 2024–2026 Spring — ELEG3103 Robotic Perception and Intelligence
- 2024–2026 Fall — ELEG2202 Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
Mentees
- Yuqing Wei · UG FYP → Stanford
- Sean Kong Ko Lun — website · UG intern → PhD student, CityU
🗣️ Languages
- Chinese: Cantonese, Mandarin, Hakka
- English