Soft Robotics and Biodesign Lab

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Guoying Gu


received the B.E. degree (with honors) in electronic science and technology, and the Ph.D. degree (with honors) in mechatronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2006 and 2012, respectively.

Since October 2012, Dr. Gu has worked at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he is currently appointed as a Professor of School of Mechanical Engineering. He was a Humboldt Fellow with University of Oldenburg, Germany. He was a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National University of Singapore and Concordia University. His research interests include soft robotics, bioinspired and wearable robots, smart materials sensing, actuation and motion control. He is the author or co-author of over 100 publications, which have appeared in Nature Biomedical Engineering, Science Robotics, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, National Science Review, IEEE/ASME Trans., Advanced Functional Materials, Soft Robotics, etc., as book chapters and in conference proceedings.

Dr. Gu received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. Now he serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. He has also served for several journals as Editorial Board Member, Topic Editor, or Guest Editor, and several international conferences/symposiums as Chair, Co-Chair, Associate Editor or Program Committee Member.

Postdoctoral fellow
Jiang Zou
Doctor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Year joined group: 2014
Project: Design and control of soft actuators and robots with dielectric elastomers

Doctoral candidate
Ningbin Zhang (co-advised with Prof. Xiangyang Zhu)
Master's degree from Institutes Of Technology Of Zhejiang
Year joined group: 2016
Project: Soft bionic hand design and its applications to prosthesis
Haipeng Xu
Bachelor's degree from Northeastern University
Year joined group: 2017
Project: 3D-printing sensors and robots
Zequn Shen
Bachelor's degree from Tongji University
Year joined group: 2018
Project: Design of soft sensors
Xinjia Huang
Bachelor's degree from Chongqing University
Year joined group: 2018
Project: Modeling and control of soft robots
Miao Feng
Bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Year joined group: 2019
Project: Soft wearable robots

Master degree candidate

Hanghang Wei
Bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Year joined group: 2019
Project: Hyper-redundant robot design and control
Yu Rong
Bachelor's degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University
Year joined group: 2019
Project: Soft robotics with machine learning
Peinan Yan
Bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Year joined group: 2020
Project: Dielectric elastomer actuator and its applications to prosthesis
Dezhi Yang
Bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Year joined group: 2020
Project: Soft wearable systems for rehabilitation
Peiwei Zhou
Bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Year joined group: 2020
Project: Soft bionic hand design
Bohao Xiao
Bachelor's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Year joined group: 2020
Project: DEA devices and manufacturing


Lab Alumni

Ningyuan Ding
Year graduated: 2021
Company/Organization: Beijing Science and Technology Co.,three fast.
Qiwen Shao
Year graduated: 2021
Company/Organization: China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd.
Houle Yang
Year graduated: 2021
Company/Organization: Beijing Bytedance Technology Co.,Ltd.
Lisen Ge
Year graduated: 2020
Company/Organization: Beijing Science and Technology Co.,three fast.
Yifan Zhang
Year graduated: 2020
Company/Organization: Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin.
Yichi Luo
Year graduated: 2020
Company/Organization: Carnegie Mellon University.
Lei Tang
Year graduated: 2019
Company/Organization: HUAWEI technologies co., ltd.
Xiangyu Peng
Year graduated: 2019
Company/Organization: University of Michigan.
Ling Li
Year graduated: 2019
Company/Organization: HUAWEI technologies co., ltd.
Shujun Wei
Year graduated: 2018
Company/Organization: HUAWEI technologies co., ltd.
Longteng Dong
Year graduated: 2018
Company/Organization: AECC Commercial Aircraft Engine Co., Ltd
Jincheng Ge
Year graduated: 2018
Company/Organization: HUAWEI technologies co., ltd.
Jungang Wang
Year graduated: 2017
Company/Organization: HUAWEI technologies co., ltd.

Undergraduate students


Zijian Qin Rong Bian Xinyu Yang Weicheng Huang