RESEARCH INTERESTS

◆ Mechanics and control of flexible/soft robots

◆ Biomechanics and mechanobiology

EDUCATION

◆ 07/2002   BEng, Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

◆ 07/2007   MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK

◆ 08/2010   PhD, Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

◆ 06/2014-Present     Associate Professor, Department of Mechanics and         Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

◆ 08/2014-05/2019   Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA

◆ 08/2012-08/2014  Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

◆ 01/2011-07/2012  Postdoctoral Fellow, Solid Mechanics Group, School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI