[Biography]

Dr. Guangbo Hao earned his Bachelor Degree of Engineering (overall ranking No. 1 among 500 students), Master Degree of Engineering (recommended for immediate admission), and Doctor Degree of Engineering (successive master-doctor program, first PhD) all from Northeastern University (NEU), China, in July 2004, March 2007 and July 2008, respectively. In September 2011, he was awarded his second PhD Degree after a subsequent three-year fully-funded study in Mechanical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University (HWU), UK.

With his recognized record of accomplishments, he was directly selected to join the School of Engineering-Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University College Cork (UCC) in November 2011, to take a permanent full-time faculty position of Lectureship in Mechanical Engineering). He is currently a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at UCC. He is the founder and the current leader of the UCC CoMAR research group, and the director of UCC Engineering Maker Lab. His current research interests focus on 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 (7 keynote/plenary/invited in conferences/workshops), and by successfully securing over €1.1 M research funding. He is supervising 8 PhD students as the main supervisor, and he has supervised/co-supervised 5 PhD students and 10 research master students, and 4 taught master students with Distinction to competition of their theses, as well as supervised/mentored 4 long-term visiting PhD students and 5 visiting scholars/professors at UCC. 

Dr. Hao is academic associate in Tyndall National Institute, and a visiting Associate Professor at University College Dublin (01/12/2024-30/11/2028). He is an ASME Fellow (2022 Oct.), an Elected Member of the ASME DED Division Mechanisms and Robotics Committee, a Senate of ASME SMASIS Division and the Secretary of ASDC TC, and the Secretary of the Irish Manufacturing Council (IMC). He has acted as an external reviewer of 8 international grants in Netherlands, Austria and Poland etc. He has been an external examiner of 5 PhD theses in Canada, France, Denmark, UK and Ireland. He is serving as an Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, of 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 Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering. He has been a regular reviewer for more than 40 top journals in the field. He was an Associate Editor of 2017-2019 IEEE IROS conferences, a Program Chair in the 2018 & 2024 IEEE/IFToMM international conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR), and the Chair of Compliant Mechanisms workshop in the 2021 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics. He has been a Program Co-Chair, the General Chair and a Program Chair in the ASME IDETC/CIE 45th (2021), 46th (2022), and 47th (2023) Mechanisms & Robotics Conferences, respectively, and was a local Co-Organizer and IPC member of the 15th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization in Cork. He was elected as the General Chair of ASME IDETC/CIE 2025 (about 1500 submissions) and is the General Co-chair of 2026 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2026), Genoa, Italy.

He has been a recipient of a dozen of research accolades (50+ in his CoMAR group) including: two postgraduate research prizes in a row presented by Heriot-Watt University (2009&2010), the solo winner of the Young Engineers Research Paper Prize 2012 (3rd Prize) presented by IMechE and Engineers Ireland, the Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Award for 2015, the Best Interactive Poster Award at the MR-6 Compliant Mechanisms and Micro/Nano Mechanisms of the 2015 ASME IDETC/CIE conference, the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE/IFToMM ReMAR 2015 conference, the solo winner of 2017 ASME Compliant Mechanisms Award in Application, the joint winner of the 2018 ASME Compliant Mechanisms Award, and the joint winner of the 2022 ASME Compliant Mechanisms Award (won the most times of ASME Compliant Mechanisms Awards). He was awarded the 2018 National Young 1000 Talents Plan in China. He also received the UCC President’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching 2023. He has been a Keynote/Invited Speaker at the French Workshop on Compliant Mechanisms in Paris (2016), the 3rd China Workshop on Compliant Mechanisms in Guangzhou (2018), the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications in Shenyang (2019), and ASME Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) conference online (2020).