Soft Robots Based on Small-Strain Mechanisms

Zheng Wang

Dr Zheng WANG graduated from Tsinghua University, China (BSc in Control Theory and Engineering), Imperial College, UK (MSc in Control Systems), Technical University of Munich, Germany (D-Ing. In Robotics, Institute of Automatic Control), and served as Postdoc Fellow in Nanyang Technological University and Harvard University, respectively. From 2014-2019 he served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, before joining SUSTECH in 2019 as Professor and Principal Investigator. Dr Wang's research interests include: robotic design and control, soft/compliant robots, biomimetic robots and special-purpose application, medical/surgical robots, etc. He had successfully led and collaborated in over 20 research grants across EU, Singapore, US, HK, and China, receiving sponsorship from HK RGC, ITC, Shenzhen Technological and Innovation Committee, and major leading companies from Microsoft, Delta, Lenovo, MBrain, Hytera, Tencent, etc. Dr Wang is currently a Senior Member of IEEE and IEEE RAS, founding member of IEEE Haptics Committee, and Member of ASME. He had served as associate editor and reviewing panel for multiple academic journals and conferences. To-date Dr Wang had authored two book/book chapters, over 50 academically refereed articles, and over 20 patents.