Dr ZHANG Hongying joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering as a Lecturer in Mar 2021. She received her B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China, in 2013. She began her doctoral research at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in the same year. Following her research supervisor, she then joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) to continue her PhD study in 2014 after a year of study in Hong Kong. At NUS, she worked on design, analysis, and manufacturing of topology-optimized soft robots and wearable dielectric sensors. Sponsored by the Facebook Virtual Reality Lab, Dr Zhang joined Prof Jamie Paik’s group (Reconfigurable Robotics Laboratory) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) as a postdoctorate researcher in 2018. At EPFL, Dr Zhang has led the work on developing methodologies to analyze novel origami robots, designing origami-inspired metamaterials, and designing new functional origami patterns. Dr Zhang has more than 17 publications in high-impact journals and conferences including Soft robotics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Extreme Mechanics Letters, Materials and Design, ICRA, IROS, MSEC, etc.
