Openings

🚀 Join MIRoC Lab — PhD / RA / Intern Openings

Our Medical Intelligence and Robotic Cognition(MIRoC) Lab is looking for highly motivated students to join our team working on intelligent medical robotics, robot learning, and multimodal AI for healthcare.

We welcome applications for:

  • 🎓 PhD Students
  • 👩‍💻 Research Assistants (RA)
  • 🌱 Research Interns (Undergraduate / Master / Visiting or remote PhD Students)

📬 How to Apply

Please send the following materials via email:

  • Transcript (optional)
  • CV (with reserach/project experience)
  • Short description of research interests

Email subject: MIRoC Application - Name - PhD/RA/Intern
Contact: dianye.huang@hku.hk and/or zljiang@hku.hk

🔬 Research Topics

Students will work on cutting-edge research including:

  • Medical Image Understanding & AI
  • Robotic Ultrasound & Medical Robotics
  • Multimodal Large Language Models for Healthcare
  • Human-Robot Interaction in Clinical Environments
  • Vision-Language-Action Models
  • Autonomous Robot Scanning & Planning
  • Learning from Demonstration for Robots

🎓 We Are Looking For

Students with background in:

  • Robotics
  • Computer Vision
  • Medical Image Analysis
  • Biomedical Engineering

Requirements:

  • Programming skills (Python / PyTorch preferred)
  • Solid math and machine learning fundamentals
  • Self-motivated and research-oriented
  • Prior research experience is a plus (not required)
  • Hands-on hardware experience is a plus plus (not required)

Remote internship is possible for outstanding candidates

🎁 What We Offer

  • Work on real robotic medical systems
  • Opportunities to publish in top-tier venues (RSS, ICRA, TRO, TMI, MICCAI, etc.)
  • Hands-on experience with robot learning & medical AI
  • Collaboration with clinicians and hospitals
  • Strong recommendation letters for PhD / academia
  • Possibility to continue as PhD student

🌍 Who Should Apply

You are encouraged to apply if you:

  • Are interested in Robotics + AI + Healthcare
  • Plan to pursue a PhD in robotics / AI
  • Want to work on impactful real-world research
  • Enjoy both theory and system building

📍 Location

MIRoC Lab,
Depart. of Mech. Eng.,
The University of Hong Kong,

Room G10, Haking Wong Building,
Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China