Journal of Membrane Science & Technology

Zheng Wang

Biography

He is currently an Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering at University of Hong Kong. The main areas of his research are: soft wearable robotic devices, haptics, robotics, teleoperation, and flexible transmission mechanisms. The main application areas are medical robots, especially surgical robots, and haptic human-robot interaction.Before joining HKU, he have been a postdoc fellow with joint appointments in the Wyss Institute of BioInspired Engineering and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, USA from 2013-2014. Prior to Harvard, he was with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from 2010, working with A/Prof Louis Phee, focusing on endoscopic surgical robots. Between 2012-2013 he was a research scientist at EndoMaster Medical Pte Ltd, Singapore. From 2006-2010, he was with Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, Technishe Universität München, Germany as a research assistant on human-robot handshake project "IMMERSENCE", supervised by Prof Martin Buss.He was awarded with his doctorate in Dec 2010.

Research Interest

His research intrests include soft wearable robotic devices, haptics, robotics, teleoperation, and flexible transmission mechanisms