Yun Zhong (Nikki) recently joined the Personal Robotics Lab as a first-year PhD student in October 2021. Her current research focuses on human behaviour understanding and human-robot interaction.
Prior to joining the lab, she had spent two years in Huawei Hong Kong Research Center as a Firmware Engineer where her research focuses on deep learning chips development and verification. She also spent another year at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Research Assistant working on human action recognition and pose estimation.
Nikki completed her MRes degree in Robotics at UCL and her undergraduate degree in Electronic Engineering at UWE, Bristol.
Publications
→ Zhong, Y., & Demiris, Y. (2024, March). DanceMVP: Self-Supervised Learning for Multi-Task Primitive-Based Dance Performance Assessment via Transformer Text Prompting. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 38, No. 9, pp. 10270-10278).
→ Zhong, Y., Zhang, F., & Demiris, Y. (2023, June). Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Automated Multi-Modal Dance Performance Assessment. In ICASSP 2023-2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
