Dianye Huang

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About Me

Dianye Huang (黄典业，黄典業) is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher of the Medical Intelligence and Robotic Cognition (MIRoC) Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technische Universität München (TUM), advised by Prof. Nassir Navab, in December 2025, graduating with summa cum laude (highest distinction). He obtained his M.Eng. and B.Eng. degrees from South China University of Technology (SCUT) in 2020 and 2017, respectively. From June 2025, he also works as a senior research scientist at the Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP) Chair at TUM. His work has been published in leading venues such as IEEE TRO, IEEE TMI, IEEE TII, ICRA, and IROS. He also served as an Associate Editor for ICRA 2025 and IROS 2026.

His research focuses on intelligent robotic ultrasound imaging systems, aiming to integrate multimodal sensing for human-like, autonomous ultrasound scanning. This multidisciplinary area lies at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, medical imaging, and machine learning. Accordingly, his research interests span medical image analysis, intelligent robot control and robot learning, including techniques (1). for general manipulation tasks that can be transferred across domains and (2). hold strong potential for the goal of advancing truly intelligent, clinically reliable, and patient-accepted medical robotic systems.

News [all]

2026.03	Join MIRoC, HKU
2026.01	HIT Webinar \| Invited Dr. Long Bai (CUHK) to deliver a talk and hosted the session.
2026.01	Serve as an Associate Editor for IROS2026
2026.01	1 paper accepted by ICRA2026, Vienna, Austria
2025.12	Received PhD degree from TUM with summa cum laude (highest distinction)
2025.12	HIT Webinar \| Invited Dr. Qianhui Men (the University of Bristol) to deliver a talk and hosted the session.
2025.12	1 paper early accepted by IPCAI2026, Nagoya, Japan
2025.12	1 paper accepted by Handbook of Robotic and Image-Guided Surgery
2025.10	1 paper accepted by IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
2025.10	1 paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO)
2025.09	Serve as an Associate Editor for ICRA2026
2025.08	HIT Webinar \| Invited Prof. Jipeng Yan (HIT) to deliver a talk and hosted the session
2025.08	Received the IES SYPA Travel Award for IROS2025, Hangzhou, China
2025.07	HIT Webinar \| Invited Prof. Guochen Ning (Tsinghua University) to deliver a talk and hosted the session
2025.06	HIT Webinar \| Invited Dr. Zhen Chen (Yale University) to deliver a talk and hosted the session.
2025.06	Student organizer of the 3rd RAMI workshop at ICRA2025, Atlanta, USA
2025.06	1 paper accepted by MICCAI2025
2025.06	2 papers accepted by IROS2025, Hangzhou, China
2025.05	Received the “Best Innovation Award” at the MRC symposium 2025, Hong Kong SAR, China
2025.04	HIT Webinar \| Invited Prof. Yutong Xie (MBZUAI) to deliver a talk and hosted the session
2025.04	HIT Webinar \| Invited Dr. Xihan Ma (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) to deliver a talk and hosted the session
2025.02	1 paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
2025.01	HIT Webinar \| Invited Dr. Yicheng Wu (Monash University) to deliver a talk and hosted the session
2025.01	HIT Webinar \| Invited Prof. Liang Zhao (The University of Edinburgh) to deliver a talk and hosted the session
2025.01	1 paper accepted by ICRA2025, Atlanta
2024.12	1 paper early accepted by IPCAI2025, Berlin, Germany
2024.11	Join the Healthcare, Intelligence, Technology Webinar (HIT Webinar) organization team
2024.05	Student organizer of the 2nd RAMI workshop at ICRA2024, Yokohama, Japan
2024.04	1 paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
2024.01	1 paper accepted by ICRA2024, Yokohama, Japan
2024.01	1 paper accepted by Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems
2023.12	1 paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
2023.06	1 paper accepted by IROS2023, Detroit, USA
2023.05	Student organizer of the 1st RAMI workshop at ICRA2023, London, UK
2023.02	1 paper accepted by Robotics and Autonomous Systems
2023.01	1 paper accepted by ICRA2023, London
2021.09	Join CAMP, TUM

Selected Publications [Google Scholar]

TRO

Improving Robustness to Out-of-Distribution States in Imitation Learning via Deep Koopman-Boosted Diffusion Policy

Dianye Huang, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang

IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Code can be found here , 2025

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@article{huang2025improving,
  title = {Improving Robustness to Out-of-Distribution States in Imitation Learning via Deep Koopman-Boosted Diffusion Policy},
  author = {Huang, Dianye and Navab, Nassir and Jiang, Zhongliang},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
  volume = {41},
  pages = {6680--6692},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11231026},
}

ICRA

Improving Probe Localization for Freehand 3D Ultrasound Using Lightweight Cameras

Dianye Huang, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang

In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Code can be found here , 2025

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@inproceedings{huang2025improvinh,
  title = {Improving Probe Localization for Freehand 3D Ultrasound Using Lightweight Cameras},
  author = {Huang, Dianye and Navab, Nassir and Jiang, Zhongliang},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages = {15472--15478},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11128230},
}

TMI

Vibnet: Vibration-boosted needle detection in ultrasound images

Dianye Huang, Chenyang Li, Angelos Karlas, Xiangyu Chu, KW Samuel Au, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. Code can be found here , 2025

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@article{huang2025vibnet,
  title = {Vibnet: Vibration-boosted needle detection in ultrasound images},
  author = {Huang, Dianye and Li, Chenyang and Karlas, Angelos and Chu, Xiangyu and Au, KW Samuel and Navab, Nassir and Jiang, Zhongliang},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10902567},
}

TASE

Robot-assisted deep venous thrombosis ultrasound examination using virtual fixture

Dianye Huang, Chenguang Yang, Mingchuan Zhou, Angelos Karlas, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. Code can be found here , 2024

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@article{huang2024robot,
  title = {Robot-assisted deep venous thrombosis ultrasound examination using virtual fixture},
  author = {Huang, Dianye and Yang, Chenguang and Zhou, Mingchuan and Karlas, Angelos and Navab, Nassir and Jiang, Zhongliang},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering},
  volume = {22},
  pages = {381--392},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10399375},
}

IROS

Motion magnification in robotic sonography: Enabling pulsation-aware artery segmentation

Dianye Huang, Yuan Bi, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang

In 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Code can be found here , 2023

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@inproceedings{huang2023motion,
  title = {Motion magnification in robotic sonography: Enabling pulsation-aware artery segmentation},
  author = {Huang, Dianye and Bi, Yuan and Navab, Nassir and Jiang, Zhongliang},
  booktitle = {2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  pages = {6565--6570},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10342220},
}

TII

Composite learning enhanced neural control for robot manipulator with output error constraints

Dianye Huang, Chenguang Yang, Yongping Pan, and Long Cheng

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2019

Bib HTML

@article{huang2019composite,
  title = {Composite learning enhanced neural control for robot manipulator with output error constraints},
  author = {Huang, Dianye and Yang, Chenguang and Pan, Yongping and Cheng, Long},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics},
  volume = {17},
  number = {1},
  pages = {209--218},
  year = {2019},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8926368},
}