Professor HOU Zhimin

Assistant Professor

BSc (Tongji University), MSc (Tsinghua University), PhD (National University of Singapore)  

Prof. Zhimin HOU received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from National University of Singapore in 2024. His doctoral research focused on developing physical human-robot interaction strategies for rehabilitation and assistive robots. He earned his M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2019, where his thesis investigated data-efficient reinforcement learning for robotic contact-rich manipulation. During this period, he was also a visiting researcher at the RLAI Lab of University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, working with Prof. Richard Sutton. After earning his Ph.D., He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at North Carolina State University and New York University, where his research focused on embodied AI, particularly sim-to-real reinforcement learning for wearable robot control. 

Research Interests:

• Embodied AI, Robotics
• Reinforcement Learning
• Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning

• Human–Robot Interaction and Collaboration