Anqing Duan

Prior to joining MBZUAI, Professor Duan worked as a research associate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). Before that, he was enrolled in a joint Ph.D. program in robotics, a collaborative initiative between the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and the University of Genoa in Italy. Additionally, Professor Duan held a position as a visiting researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.

• Ph.D. in Robotics, Italian Institute of Technology and University of Genova, Italy
• Master’s in Mechatronics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

• KUKA Innovation Award Finalist
• IEEE/RSJ IROS New Generation Star Project
• IEEE RO-MAN Best Reviewer Award

• H. Ding, A. Duan*, Z. Sun, D. Song, Y. Nakamura, ”Virtual In-Hand View Synthesis for Robust Visuomotor Policies”, 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Pittsburgh, USA, 2026.
• C. Chen, H. Ding, R. Ding, T. Liu, Z. He, A. Duan*, Y. Nakamura: "3D-CovDiffusion: 3D-Aware Diffusion Policy for Coverage Path Planning”, 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Pittsburgh, USA, 2026.
• W. Yang, T. Liu, H. Ding, Y. Yang, D. Song, Y. Nakamura, A. Duan*: "Towards Physically Grounded and Efficient Policy Learning for Floating-Base Robots”, 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Pittsburgh, USA, 2026.
• A. Duan, W. Liuchen, D. Gomez, M. Muddassir, D. Navarro-Alarcon: "Healthcare Robots for Photorejuvenation-based Cosmetic Services”, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Vienna, Austria, 2026.