Bioinspired Robotic Matter

Dr. Hongbin Fang is an associate professor in the Institute of AI and Robotics at Fudan University since 2018. Dr. Fang received his Ph.D. from Tongji University in 2015. Prior to his current position, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan from 2015 to 2017, collaborating with Prof. Kon-Well Wang, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, collaborating with Prof. Li Cheng. He is the recipient of the 2014 SPIE Bioinspiration & Biomimetics Best Student Paper Award (First place). Dr. Fang’s technical interests are on origami-based mechanical metamaterials, bio-inspired robotics, nonlinear dynamics and control.