Lab PI
Hongliang Ren
Principal investigator, REN Lab — Intelligent Medical Mechatronics, Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Corresponding author on all three projects below.
REN Lab · Robotic Endoscopy
Endoscopic
Autonomy
Research on perception, interaction, and language-conditioned control for autonomous flexible endoscopy.
Vision-language-action
Reinforcement learning
Continuum robots
Clinical phantoms & ex-vivo
01 · Vision-language-action
EndoVLA
Prompt-conditioned tracking for polyps, abnormal mucosa, and circumferential cutting markers.
02 · Contact-rich control
CAN
🏆 T.J. Tarn Best Paper Award in Robotics · IEEE ROBIO 2025Force-informed reinforcement learning for navigation in a dynamic, deformable stomach.
03 · Bidirectional control
EndoLIFT
Language-disambiguated action generation for forward navigation and urgent retraction.
The people
Who builds this
Talents wanted
One funded RA position
One funded RA position
is open right now.
We are looking for one research assistant to join the endoscopic autonomy effort — robot learning, continuum-robot control, and clinical phantom / ex-vivo experiments.
Apply by email →- 1Send your CV and transcript to sharerpailab@gmail.com
- 2Use exactly this subject line:
clinical01 funded RA application - 3Candidates will be arranged a Zoom or face-to-face interview.
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