Dr. Guangbo Hao

Dr. Guangbo Hao earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Engineering from Northeastern University (NEU), China, in 2004, 2007, and 2008, respectively. He was awarded his second Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University (HWU), U.K., in 2011. Currently, he is a senior lecturer at the School of Engineering and Architecture, University College Cork, T12 K8AF, Cork, Ireland. He is the founder and the current leader of the UCC CoMAR research group and the director of the UCC Engineering Maker Lab. His current research interests focus on the design of compliant mechanisms and robotics and their innovative applications, such as precision manufacturing, energy harvesting, and medical devices. His research works were indicated by more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and more than 30 invited talks, and he successfully secured over EUR 1M in research funding as PI/Co-PI/Co-I. He is an academic associate at Tyndall National Institute and a visiting associate professor at University College Dublin. He is an ASME fellow (2022 Oct.) and the secretary of the Irish Manufacturing Council (IMC). He is serving as an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and of Mechanism and Machine Theory, the Editor-in-Chief of Mechanical Sciences, and an overseas editorial board member of the Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering. He has been a regular reviewer for more than 40 top journals in the field.