Professor Yang Liu

Professor Yang Liu is Personal Chair in Dynamics and Control in the Department of Engineering at the University of Exeter, an Honorary Lecturer at the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and Director of the Exeter Small-Scale Robotics Laboratory. He joined the University of Exeter in 2016 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer (2019), Associate Professor (2022), and Professor/Personal Chair (2024). Prior to Exeter, he held research and academic positions at the University of Aberdeen (Research Fellow) and Robert Gordon University (Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering).

Professor Liu’s research sits at the intersection of nonlinear dynamics, control, and medical robotics, with a strong focus on translational healthcare applications. His work particularly targets next-generation robotic technologies for gastrointestinal diagnostics, including sensing and intervention in challenging clinical environments using millimetre- and micrometre-scale robots.

His research achievements have been recognised internationally through multiple awards and honours, including the Ali H. Nayfeh Prize (International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics 2021), and he has been listed in the Stanford & Elsevier Global Top 2% Scientists since 2019.