[Personal Selected]
Year 2023: UCC President’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching 2023
Year 2022: Elected Fellow of ASME
Year 2022: Cover image published in Wind Energy is based on our Review Article Applications of robotics in floating offshore wind farm operations and maintenance: Literature review and trends: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10991824/2022/25/11
Year 2022: Winner of the 2022 ASME Compliant Mechanisms Award for the paper entitled “Design and nonlinear analysis of an overconstraint based constant amplification compliant mechanisms”, by Jiaxiang, Zhu, Guangbo Hao*, Tinghao Liu, Haiyang Li.
Year 2022: Appointed as an Associate Editor of Mechanism and Machine Theory
Year 2022: Top 1% reviewers of the Mechanism and Machine Theory journal in 2021
Year 2022: Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Year 2022: Keynote Speaker at Mechanical and Automotive Engineering World Forum scheduled to be held during June 16-18, 2022 in Rome, Italy
Year2021: Invited Lecturer in Powering the IOT Summer School 2021 hosted by NiPS Laboratory and EnABLES, Italy, 17 Sep. 2021
Year 2021: Invited Keynote talk at ICRA 2021 workshop: "Parallel robots or not parallel robots? New frontiers of parallel robotics" (https://icra2021pkm.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/4)
Year 2020: Invited speaker in ASME SMASIS conference Symposium 3 Adaptive System Modelling, Design and Control (https://event.asme.org/SMASIS/Speakers)
Year 2020: Recipient of the 2019 Award for Outstanding Contribution in Peer Review (Mechanism and Machine Theory)
Year 2020: IOP Publishing 'Outstanding Reviewer' Award winner (Smart Materials and Structures for 2019)
Year 2019 : Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics
Year 2019 : Editor-in-Chief of IFToMM journal Mechanical Sciences.
Year 2018: Selected as the overseas editorial board member of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Dec. 2018.
Year 2018: Invited as a plenary speaker in the 3rd Compliant Mechanisms Workshop to be held in Guangzhou, 23-25 Nov. 2018.
Year 2018: Elected to be the member of the ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Committee with terms ending in 2024.
Year 2018:: Winner of the 2018 ASME Compliant Mechanisms Award for the coauthored paper "Modeling Large Deflections of Initially Curved Beams in Compliant Mechanisms Using Chained Beam-Constraint-Model" by Guimin Chen, Fulei Ma, Guangbo Hao and Weidong Zhu.
Year 2018: Visiting Lecturer in University College Dublin (honorary adjunct appointment)
Year 2018: Recipient of the 2017 Award for Outstanding Contribution in Peer Review (Mechanism and Machine Theory)
Year 2017 : Solo Winner of the ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Committee's award for "Contributions in the Applications of Compliant Mechanisms" for the paper entitled"Design and analysis of symmetrical, monolithic tip-tilt-piston flexure stages", presented at the 2017 ASME IDETC/CIE, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Year 2016 : Executive Editor of IFToMM journal Mechanical Sciences (IF: 1.20) invited by Prof. Just Herder.
Year 2016 : Keynote Speaker at the 2016 Workshop on Compliant Mechanisms in the framework of the "GdR Robotique" in Paris, 8 April 2016
Year 2015 : Best Interactive Poster Award at the MR-6 Compliant Mechanisms and Micro/Nano Mechanisms at the 2015 ASME IDETC/CIE , Boston, MA, USA, for the paper entitled "Compliant Mechanism Reconfiguration Based on Position Space Concept for reducing Parasitic Motion" by Haiyang Li and Guangbo Hao.
Year 2015 : Best Student Paper Award at the Third IEEE/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots for the collaboration paper: “Design and Analysis of a New 7R Single-loop Linkage with 4R, 6R and 7R operation Modes" by X. He, X. Kong, G. Hao, J. Ritchie.
Year 2015 : Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Charlemont Scholar for 2015
Year 2012 : Solo Winner of Young Engineers Research Paper Award (3rd Prize) 2012 Ireland by IMechE and Engineers Ireland for the paper entitled "Compliant Parallel Manipulators".
Year 2010 : Postgraduate Research Prize ( Second-Year ) in School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Year 2010 : Scientific Photo-Competition Winner for Simulation and Working in Heriot-Watt University, UK
Year 2009 : Postgraduate Research Prize ( First-Year ) in School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Year 2008 : 2008 Beijing Olympic Torch Relay Hand (the only one selected candidate at NEU), China
Year 2008 : HWU Full PhD Scholarship, UK
Year 2008 : Outstanding Individual in Summer Practice of Shenyang City, China
Year 2006-2008 : Vice President of All China Student Federation, China; President of NEU Postgraduate Association
Year 2007 : CAI Guan-Shen Named Scholarship, NEU, China
Year 2007 : May 4th Medal for the Best Postgraduates, NEU, China
Year 2006: Second-Prize in the Second National College Students Mechanical Innovation Design Competition, China
Year 2006 : Excellent Postgraduate Scholarship, NEU, China
Year 2005: Second-Prize in the Second National Postgraduate Mathematics Modelling Competition, China
Year 2005 : Excellent Postgraduate Scholarship, NEU, China
Year 2004 : Ranking first in 4-year’s undergraduate overall evaluation in the Discipline of Mechanical Engineering and Automation (500 students), NEU, China
Year 2004 : Excellent Graduate of Liaoning Province, China
Year 2004 : First-Grade Undergraduate Scholarship, NEU, China
Year 2003 : First-Prize in the Second College Students Mechanical Innovation Design Competition of Liaoning Province, China
Year 2003: LG Named Scholarship, NEU, China
Year 2003: First-Grade Undergraduate Scholarship, NEU, China
Year 2002: First-Grade Undergraduate Scholarship, NEU, China
Year 2001: First-Grade Undergraduate Scholarship, NEU, China
[Student Awards Supervised]
Year 2022, Kong Zhang, a PhD student, won honourable mention in the first Forum for Chinese PhD students in Ireland and North Ireland
Year 2022, Shiyao Li, a PhD student, won the best presentation award in the first Forum for Chinese PhD students in Ireland and North Ireland (with cash prize of 300 Euros)
Year 2022: Shiyao Li, a PhD student, 2nd place in the 2022 ASME Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition.
Year 2022: Siyuan Ye, a PhD student, finalist in the UCC School of Engineering Research Image Competition
Year 2022: Jiaxiang Zhu, a PhD student, won the 2nd place in the UCC School of Engineering Research Image Competition (with cash prize of 20 Euros)
Year 2022: Seyeed Kargar, research master student, won a participation award for outstanding research at the SFI centre MaREI Symposium 2022
Year 2021: Jiaxiang Zhu, a 1st year PhD student won the 2nd place in the 2021 ASME Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition (with cash prize of 400 Euros).
Year 2021: Siyuan Ye, a 1st year PhD student won the Student Design Challenge Award (Innovation Award) in the IEEE/IFToMM ReMAR2021 Conference (with cash prize of 400 Euros)
Year 2021: Omer Khalid, a 1st year PhD student won Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) from WECANet COST Action (EUR 2640)
Year 2021: Shiyao Li, a PhD student, runner’s up for UCC School of Engineering and Architecture Postgraduate Research Publication of the Year 2020 (with cash prize of 200 Euros)
Year 2020: Rohan Powar, a Master student, awarded 3rd prize in IMechE & Engineers Ireland Student Engineering Competition: Individual Applied Project Competition 2020 (with cash prize of 200 Euros).
Year 2019: Shiyao Li, a PhD student, awarded the UCC SEFS PG Travel Bursary 2019-2020 (500 Euros).
Year 2018: George Vathakkattil Joseph, Best PhD student presentation award in The 5th Workshop in Devices, Materials, and Structures for Energy Harvesting and Storage for the work entitled "Fragility Analysis Using Energy Harvesters" supervised by Vikram Pakrashi (UCD) and Guangbo Hao (UCC).
Year 2017: Abhilash NAYAK (PhD student in Ecole Centrale de Nantes), and Haiyang LI (PhD student in UCC), under the supervision of Dr. Hao (UCC) and Dr. Stéphane CARO (CNRS), finalists in the 2017 ASME Student Mechanism & Robotics Design Competition for their work: A NOVEL RECONFIGURABLE COMPLIANT GRIPPER (1 out of 6 teams selected for the graduate category in the world, and travel grant provided for travelling to Ohio, USA)
Year 2017: UCC 2nd-year PCE student Mr. Heraldas Vaivada was awarded the UCC Summer Bursary 2017 for his 8-week project under the supervision of Dr. Hao.
Year 2016: Tim Farrell and Sean Finn, EEE final year project students, finalists in the 2016 ASME Student Mechanism & Robotics Design Competition for their work: “Development of a Bistable Origami Coronary Stent Actuated by Shape Memory Wire” (1 out of 6 teams selected for the undergraduate category in the world, and travel grant provided for travelling to USA, finally achieved an Award for Extraordinary Effort)
Year 2016: UCC 2nd-year EEE student Mr. Mehdi Riza was awarded the UCC Summer Bursary 2016 for his 8-week project under the supervision of Dr. Hao.
Year 2016: PhD student George V. Joseph was awarded a 3-month Summer Internship in Advanced Institute of Manufacturing with High-Tech Innovations, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.
Year 2016: PhD student Haiyang Li was awarded full travel grant for attending Workshop on Software and Applications of Algebraic Geometry in Notre Dame University, USA
Year 2015: PhD student Mr. Haiyang Li shortlisted for the prestigious "2015 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad", 1 out of 7 recommended by Section of Education Chinese Embassy in the Republic of Ireland.
Year 2015: Best Interactive Poster Award at the ASME IDETC/CIE 2015 MR-6 Compliant Mechanisms and Micro/Nano Mechanisms (first author is the PhD student under Dr. Hao's supervision)
Year 2014: Shortlist for IMechE/YES Poster Presentation Competition 2014 (presented to taught ME master student, Mr. Ronan Hand, under Dr. Hao's supervision)
Year 2013: Third Prize with cash for IMechE Speak Out for Engineering competition 2013, Ireland (presented to EEE final year project students, James Foody and Karl Maxwell, under Dr. Hao's supervision)