Ph.D. (University of Alberta)

Dr. Jian Zhu is currently an associate professor at the School of Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and is also a part-time PI at the Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society. Before that, he worked as an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. He received a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at University of Alberta, Canada in 2008, and was awarded “NSERC postdoctoral fellowship” by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He then worked as a postdoctoral follow with Prof. Zhigang Suo at Harvard University, focusing on artificial muscles based on soft active materials. Dr. Jian Zhu is an associate editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters，a guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and a conference committee member of SPIE EAPAD (Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices) conference. His current research interest lies on Intelligent Soft Robots, Bioinspired Robots, and Smart Materials and Structures. Dr. Jian Zhu was a “World's Top 2% Scientist” in both 2020 and 2021 by Stanford University. His work on soft actuators was awarded “High Impact Paper 2021” by Science China - Technological Sciences.

*: corresponding author

Journal

1. Wang, Y.Z., Zhang, P.P., Huang, H. (*), and Zhu, J. (*), Bio-inspired transparent soft jellyfish robot, Soft Robotics, Accepted.
2. Wang, Y.Z. (*), Li, P.C., Gupta, U., Ouyang, J.Y. (*), and Zhu, J. (*), Tunable Soft Lens of Large Focal Length Change，Soft Robotics 9, 705-712，2022.
3. Li, J.S., Godaba, H., Zhu, J. (*), Paper-based origami transducer capable of both sensing and actuation, Extreme Mechanics Letters 49, 101507, 2021.
4. Li, P.C., Wang, Y.Z., Gupta, U., Liu, J., Zhang, L., Du, D.H., Foo, C.C., Ouyang, J.Y. (*), and Zhu, J. (*), Transparent soft robots for effective camouflage, Advanced Functional Materials, 1901908, 2019.
5. Godaba, H., Zhang, Z., Gupta, U., Foo, C.C., Zhu, J. (*), Instabilities in dielectric elastomers: buckling, wrinkling, and crumpling, Soft Matter 15, 7137-7144, 2019. (This paper was selected as the inside front cover).
6. Qin, L., Liang, X.Q., Huang, H., Chui, C.K., Yeow, R.C.H. (*), and Zhu, J. (*), A versatile soft crawling robot with rapid locomotion, Soft Robotics 6，455-467，2019.
7. Li, L., Godaba, H., Ren, H.L., and Zhu, J. (*), Bioinspired Soft Actuators for Eyeball Motions in Humanoid Robots, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 24, 100-108, 2018.
8. Gupta, U., Wang, Y.Z., Ren, H.L. (*), and Zhu, J. (*), Dynamic modeling and feedforward control of jaw movements driven by viscoelastic artificial muscles, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 24, 25-35, 2018.
9. Li, J., Godaba, H., Zhang, Z., Foo, C.C., Zhu, J. (*), A soft active origami robot, Extreme Mechanics Letters 24, 30-37, 2018. The robot was featured by Thomson Reuters

(http://www.reuters.com/video/2017/06/19/snake-on-a-plane-dont-panic-its-probably?videoId=371917541).

10. Cao, J.W., Qin, L., Liu, J., Ren, Q.Y., Foo, C.C., Wang, H.,Q., Lee, H.P., and Zhu, J. (*), Untethered soft robot capable of stable locomotion using soft electrostatic actuators, Extreme Mechanics Letters 21, 9-16, 2018. This robot was featured by Nature Electronics (Rich, Wood, Majidi, Untethered Soft Robotics, Nature Electronics, Vol 1, 102-112, 2018).
11. Wang, Y.Z., Zhu, J. (*), Artificial muscles for jaw movements, Extreme Mechanics Letters 6, 88-95, 2016. This paper was featured by Materials today 19, 188, 2016, http://www.materialstoday.com/biomaterials/news/artificial-muscles-for-robotic-jaws/.
12. Kollosche, M., Kofod G., Suo, Z.G., and Zhu, J.(*), Temporal evolution and instability in a viscoelastic dielectric elastomer, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 76, 47–64, 2015.

Conference:

1. Luo, Z., Xu, Z.P., Li, J.S., Zhu, J. (*), Bioinspired antagonist–agonist artificial muscles for humanoid eyeball motions, IROS 2022.
2. Li, L., Wang, H., and Zhu, J. (*), Modeling of viscoelastic dielectric elastomer actuators based on the sparse identification method, ICRA 2022.
3. Cao, J.W., Liang, W.Y., Ren, Q.Y., Gupta, U., Chen, F.F., Zhu, J. (*), Modelling and Control of a Novel Soft Crawling Robot based on a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator, ICRA 2018.
4. Tang, Y.C., Qin, L., Li, X.N., Chew, C.M., and Zhu, J. (*), A Frog-inspired Swimming Robot Based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuators, IROS 2017.
5. Godaba, H., Li, J.S., Wang, Y.Z., Zhu, J. (*), A soft jellyfish robot driven by a dielectric elastomer actuator, ICRA 2016. This paper was also published in IEEE Robotics and Automation letters 1, 624-631, 2016.