Dr. Xiaoping Hong received bachelor degree from HKUST in 2009, and PhD from UC Berkeley in 2014, both in physics. Dr. Xiaoping Hong has rich experience in interdisciplinary research and engineering. He led the sensor research and development as a Senior Scientist at Honeywell in Silicon Valley. He joined DJI in 2016 as the Head of Optoelectronics Department and led the R&D and manufacturing of the optoelectronic modules and lidar products.Dr. Hong’s researches value first principles with emphasis on system engineering and  simultaneous optimization on hardware and algorithm. 

Research Area

Sensor design and application for robots

Novel optical imaging and machine vision

Sensor algorithms and system integration

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Working Experience

2019 – Present  Assistant Professor, SDIM, SUSTech

2020 – Present  Founding Director, DJI-joint Lab

2016 – 2019  Head of Optoelectronics Division, Product Manager, DJI (Shenzhen)

2014 – 2016  Senior Research Scientist, Honeywell (San Jose, California)

Education Background

2009 – 2014  PhD, UC Berkeley

2005 – 2009  Bachelor, HKUST

Publications

1. W Yang, Z Gong, B Huang, X Hong+, Lidar with Velocity: Correcting Moving Objects Point Cloud Distortion from Oscillating Scanning Lidars by Fusion with Camera, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2022) / IEEE IROS 2022

2. C Yuan, W Xu, X Liu, X Hong+, F Zhang+, Efficient and Probabilistic Adaptive Voxel Mapping for Accurate Online LiDAR Odometry, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2022) / IEEE IROS 2022

3. C Yuan, X Liu, X Hong+, F Zhang+, Pixel-level Extrinsic Self Calibration of High Resolution LiDAR and Camera in Targetless Environments, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2021) / IEEE IROS 2021

4. Y Zhu, C Zheng, C Yuan, X Huang, X Hong+, CamVox: A Low-cost and Accurate Lidar-assisted Visual SLAM System, IEEE ICRA 2021

5. Z Liu, F Zhang+, X Hong+, Low-cost Retina-like Robotic Lidars Based on Incommensurable Scanning, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2021)

6. J Kim*, X Hong*, C Jin, SF Shi, CY Chang, MH Chiu, LJ Li, F Wang, Ultrafast Generation of Pseudo-magnetic Field for Valley Excitons in WSe2 Monolayers, Science (2014)

7. X Hong*, J Kim*, SF Shi*, Y Zhang, C Jin, Y Sun, S Tongay, J Wu, Y Zhang, F Wang, Ultrafast Charge Transfer in Atomically Thin MoS2/WS2 Heterostructures, Nature Nanotechnology (2014)

* denotes equal contributing first author, + denotes corresponding author