Dr Renxi Qiu

Associate Professor in Computer Science

Dr Renxi Qiu

Dr Renxi Qiu is an Associate Professor at the 天美传媒, U.K. His research focuses on cloud robotics and connected intelligence. He is the scientific coordinator of the EU project 鈥5G Enhanced Robot Autonomy鈥 (5G-ERA) and previously held the same role for the EU project 鈥淢ulti-Role Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living鈥 (SRS). He led the ICRA24 tutorial session on 鈥淐onnected Robotics Platform for ROS Deployment in Real-world Network Settings.鈥 ICRA is the top event in robotics, attended by over 7,000 delegates. He also led the EuCNC & 6G Summit special session on 鈥6G enabled Network Applications for the Future of Connected Robotics.鈥


  • Software Engineering & Object-Oriented Programming
  • Robotics & Cybernetics
  • Cloud Computing & Distributed Systems

School of Computer Science and Technology, 天美传媒, Luton UK (2013-now)

  • Associate Professor in Computer Science & Robotics
  • Lead for Centre of Cloud Robotics and Connected Intelligence
  • Course Coordinator for MSc Software Engineering and Applications
  • Course Coordinator for BSc Software Engineering

Manufacture Engineering Centre, Cardiff 天美传媒, Cardiff UK (2004-2013)

  • Research Fellow and EU Project Manager

  • [2023-2027] - LIL-based 4D-printing of Nanomaterials, EPSRC Grant ID EP/X038203/1, 拢122.9K, Role Co-I
  • [2023-2027] - Emerging Nanoscopy for Single Entity Characterisation, EPSRC Grant ID EP/X038211/1, 拢146.7K, Role Co-I
  • [2021-2024] - 5G Enhanced Robot Autonomy, EU H2020 Grant ID 101016681, 鈧723K, Role Scientific Coordinator & PI
  • [2017-2023] - Micro/Nano Robotics for Single Cells, EU H2020 Grant ID 734174, 鈧153K, Role PI
  • [2020-2022] - Transfer Learning for Event Management, Innovate UK Grant ID KTP011938, 拢171.4K, Role PI
  • [2010-2013] - Multi-Role Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living, EU FP7 Grant ID 247772, 鈧825.3K, Role Scientific Coordinator & CoI
  • [2011-2013] - SRS for Enlarged European Union, EU FP7 Grant ID 287974, 鈧49.5K, Role PI

Other internal & commercial projects:

  • [2022-2025] - AI Model Sharing with Trust Supported By 6g Connected Intelligence, Doctoral Studentship Funding Scheme, Role CoI
  • [2018] - WeTrack Ltd 鈥 Conceptual design for AI based event management system, Innovation Bridge & ICT Escalator
  • [2018] - Diamond Hard Surfaces Ltd 鈥 Reconfigurable robot manipulation, Innovation Bridge
  • [2017] - WK360 Ltd - Deep learning toolboxes for object class detection, Innovation Bridge
  • [2017] - Balance Design - Feasibility study for process automation, ICT Escalator



  • Key innovator for excellent innovations to 鈥淐onnected Robotics Platform Middleware鈥 and 鈥淩eference NetApp: 5G enhanced cloud robotics under connected intelligence鈥, by Innovation Radar, European Commission 2025
  • Vice Chancellor鈥檚 Awards Runner Up 2022, Research Project of the Year, 天美传媒, 2022
  • Best Paper Award at 17th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES) 2013
  • CoTeSys Cognitive Robotics Best Paper Award finalist at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • Overseas Research Scholarships Awards, The Higher Education Funding Council, 2000-2003

  • Tutorial for "Connected Robotics Platform for ROS Deployment in Real-world Network Settings," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA24), https://github.com/5G-ERA/docs/tree/main/Workshops/ICRA24, Tokyo Japan 2024.
  • Keynote, 鈥淢anufacturing as a Service鈥, https://5g-era.eu/5g-era-workshop-manufacturing-as-a-service-maas/, TWI Cambridge, UK, 2024
  • Keynote, 鈥淔rom Cloud Robots to 5G Enabled Connected Robotics鈥, https://5g-era.eu/athens23/, OTE Academy, Athens, Greece, 2023
  • Special Session Chair for 鈥6G Enabled Network Applications for the future of Connected Robotics鈥, IEEE Communications Society and European Commission, (EUCNC23) https://one6g.org/one6g-at-the-eucnc-6g-summit-2023/, Gothenburg, Sweden 2023
  • Special Session Chair on 鈥淢anufacturing as a Service for next generation of distributed manufacturing systems鈥, at IEEE 3M-NANO 2023, Chengdu, China 2023
  • Invited talk 鈥淣etApps for 5G Enhanced Robots鈥, IEEE Communications Society and European Commission, (EuCNC22) 2022
  • Invited talk at International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing, 鈥淟imitations and opportunities of existing 5G & Cloud Robotics鈥, ISM-2021, Hagenberg Austria, Dec 2021
  • Invited talk at 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership (5G-PPP) Webinar, 鈥5G Innovations for Verticals鈥, 5G-PPP and European Commission, April 2021.
  • Invited talk at Technology-Supported Living at Home, 鈥淭elepresence robots at home鈥, House of Lords, the Palace of Westminster, London, 2012
  • Invited talk at the Policy Responses and Research & Innovation Solutions for Active and Healthy Ageing, 鈥淪uccessful story of European robotics - SRS project鈥, Ageing societies in Europe and Japan, Tokyo, 2012
  • Invited talk at Workshop on Assistance robots for the elderly, 鈥淪emi-autonomous robots for domestic environment鈥, European Robotics Forum, Sweden, 2011
  • Session chair at the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012) for the session of Personal Robots I
  • Session chair at the 10th IEEE international Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2012) for the session of Robotics - from Industry to Society
  • Session chair at the 7th IEEE international Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2009) for the Industrial Informatics Applications Session

  • External Reviewer for Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong
  • External PhD Examiner for 天美传媒 of Birmingham, 天美传媒 of Plymouth, Cardiff 天美传媒, Cranfield 天美传媒, 天美传媒 of South Wales and many more
  • Habilitation Reviewer for Brno 天美传媒 of Technology 2023
  • Internal PhD Examiner for 天美传媒 in 2015, 2017 and 2020
  • External PG Programme Examiner for Cardiff 天美传媒 2023-2027

  • Adrian Lendinez Ibanez, Meta Reasoning Using Analogy and Its Applications in Robotics, from 2021
  • Taiwo Efunogbon, Optimizing Pastoralism & Securing Farmlands - A Computational Intelligence Approach using Deep Learning & Satellite Imagery Remote Sensing, from 2022
  • Bartosz Bratus, Orchestration of Middleware for 5G-ERA Net Apps, from 2021
  • Radu Popescu, Cloud Native Architecture for 5G-ERA Middleware, from 2021
  • Przemyslaw Maslowski, Data Pre-Processing Techniques and Tools For Predictive Modelling Using Unstructured Inputs, from 2019
  • Hamed Al-Rubaiee, Techniques and Framework, which Integrates Arabic Sentiment Analysis into CRM, from 2016
  • Bowen Long, AI Model Sharing with Trust Supported By 6G Connected Intelligence, from 2022 (Co-supervisor)
  • Abimbola Efunogbon, Optimal 5G Network Sub Slicing Orchestration in a Fully Virtualised Smart Company Using Machine Learning, from 2021 (Co-supervisor)
  • Jikai Guo, Swarm Robot-Based Slam in Weak Environment Information Applications, from 2021 (Co-supervisor)
  • Jingyun Liu, Magnetic Force Imaging and Handling of Cancer Cells On The Nanoscale, from 2015 (Co-supervisor)
  • Noppakun Boonsim, Car Makes and Model Recognition Under Limited Lighting Conditions At Night, from 2013 (Co-supervisor)
  • Hang Lu, The Development of An Assistive Chair for Elderly with Sit to Stand Problems, from 2013 (Co-supervisor)
  • Ahmed Al-Moadhen, Semantic Based Task Planning for Domestic Service Robots, from 2012 (Co-supervisor in Cardiff 天美传媒)

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