Dr. Zhichao Liu
Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering @ UHCL
Experience:
- Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at University of Houston - Clear Lake, 2025 - Present
- Postdoctoral Research Scientist III at University of Arkansas, 2025
- Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California Riverside, 2023 – 2024
Education:
- Ph.D. at University of California Riverside
- M.S.E. at University of Pennsylvania
- B.E. at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Email: LiuZ@UHCL.edu
Office:Delta Building D-110
Grants:
Coming Soon!
Awards:
- UC Riverside Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship (2018)
- 1st Prize in National Undergraduate Electronic Design Competition - Beijing
- 2nd Prize in NXP Cup National Undergraduate Intelligent Car Racing
- 3rd Prize in RoboCup National Competition
Mentoring:
- Caleb Carpenter, Undergraduate student @ University of Arkansas, Robotic Ultrasound Scanning with Agumented Reality, 2025
- Jingzong Zhou, PhD student @ University of California Riverside, Multi-manual Quadrupedal and Aerial Manipulation on Precise Farming, 2023-2024
Teaching:
- CENG 2312.2 Digital Circuit @ University of Houston-Clear Lake, 2025
- CENG 3151 Lab for Computer Architecture @ University of Houston-Clear Lake, 2025
- CENG 3116 Lab for Electronics @ University of Houston-Clear Lake, 2025
- Introduction to Robotics - Robot Kinematics and Dynamics @ University of Arkansas (Co-Instructor), 2025
- Advanced Robotics: Dynamics, Control, and Planning for Aerial Robots @ University of California Riverside (Co-Instructor), 2022
- Automatic Control @ University of California Riverside (TA), 2020
- Mathematical Methods For Electrical Engineers @ University of California Riverside (TA), 2019
Talks:
- Department of Computer Engineering, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, USA (2025)
- 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, USA (2025)
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA (2025)
- 42nd Southern California Control Workshop, Riverside, USA (2023)
- 2023 Southern Robotics Symposium (Poster), Irvine, USA (2023)
- Reliable Autonomous System Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA (2023)
- 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, USA (2023)
- 2022 Southern Robotics Symposium (Poster), Los Angeles, USA (2022)
- 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic (2021)
- 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi’an, China (2021)
- 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France (2020)
Services:
- Associate Editor, Complex & Intelligent Systems Journal, 2023 - Present
- Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024 - Present
- Reviewer: ICRA, IROS, CASE, ROBIO, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Complex & Intelligent Systems, Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
Publications:
- List here