Dr. Lingbo Cheng is a Lecturer at the School of Engineering, University of Newcastle, Australia, specializing in Control and Automation for Medical Robotics. Her research focuses on haptics, teleoperation control, non-linear systems, medical imaging, and multi-robot systems. Previously, she held positions as Assistant Professor at Zhejiang University and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta. She received her PhD in Control Systems from the University of Alberta in 2019, with qualifications spanning machine learning, signal processing, and medical robotics. Her professional experience includes developing telerobotic systems for beating-heart surgery and haptics-enabled surgical training platforms. Dr. Cheng's research bridges control engineering and medical devices, emphasizing applications in surgical robotics, autonomous navigation, and human-machine interfaces. Her publications demonstrate consistent focus on reinforcement learning for autonomous systems, medical robotics control architectures, and computational methods for real-time applications. Analyzing her recent articles reveals strong trends in reinforcement learning applications for autonomous vehicles/vessels (5 papers), medical robotics innovation (4 papers), and control system optimization (4 papers), with emerging work in maritime navigation and air traffic management. Currently leading projects on teleoperation systems and multi-robot surgical training, Dr. Cheng collaborates internationally on magnetically actuated surgical tools and autonomous navigation systems. Her lab focuses on human-robot interaction for medical and transportation applications.












