[SELECTED PERSONAL RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS]
Year 2026: SAMIO 2026 Excellent Presentation Awards (presented to Siyuan Ye, Jiang Lin, Chi Wang, Guangbo Hao, Huijuan Feng) for paper: Bistable Tubular Origami Metamaterials via Hyperelastic Smooth Folds
Year 2026: Judge of UCPAE 10 Leading Chinese Talents on Science and Technology Leaders in Europe 2026
Year 2026: Invited Keynote presentation at the 8th International Conference of Bionic Engineering (ICBE 2026), to be held in Beijing, China, from October 16 to 19, 2026.
Year 2026: ASME 2025 Associate Editor of the Year Award. https://www.asme.org/publications-submissions/journals/asme-journal-program-awards/associate-editors-of-the-year/2025
Year 2025: Name on the list of the Stanford/Elsevier's Top 2% Scientist Rankings for the Career 5 times (2021-2025) and for the Single Year 6 times (2020-2025). 2025 Rank: 84598, with Rank in the SubField (Design Practice & Management): 57 out of 11514 authors. Career ranking in 2025: 192145, 4th in School of Engineering, UCC.
Year 2025: Selected Wind Energy expert and invited speaker at the IEA Wind “Automated Robotics for Wind Farms” Topical Expert Meeting #118.
Year 2025: One of 10 Leading Chinese Talents on Science and Technology Leaders in Europe 2025, presented in UCPAE Europe Forum (only one selected from Ireland)
Year 2025: 2024 Top Scholar by ScholarGPS-prior 5 years (All Fields No. 146 in Ireland)
Year 2025: UCC Research Supervisor of the Year in the UCC Research & Innovation Awards 2024
Year 2025: Wiley Top Viewed Article 2023 for our paper: Cost‐benefit assessment framework for robotics‐driven inspection of floating offshore wind farms
Year 2025: Wiley Top Viewed Article 2023 for our paper: Unmanned aerial vehicle navigation in underground structure inspection: A review
Year 2025: Judging Panel and Award Presenter for the Manufacturing Excellence Awards (MEA) 2025 Ireland organized by BusinessRiver.
Year 2025: Best presentation award at the 2025 International Conference on Compliant Mechanisms in China (ICCM 2025), April 11-13,2025, Xi’an, China (presented by Dr. Haitong Liang)
Year 2025: Plenary speaker in the 2025 International Conference on Compliant Mechanisms in China (11-13 April 2025, Xi’an, China), affiliated with IFToMM-Beijing.
Year 2024: Name on the list of the Stanford/Elsevier's Top 2% Scientist Rankings for the Career 4 times (2021-2024) and for the Single Year 5 times (2020-2024). 2024 Rank: 102803, with Rank in the SubField (Design Practice & Management): 64 out of 11034 authors; 2023 Rank: 93804, with Rank in the SubField (Design Practice & Management): 58 out of 10524 authors; 2022 Rank: 190377, with Rank in the SubField (Design Practice & Management): 123 out of 9979 authors; 2021 Rank: 155941, with Rank in the SubField (Design Practice & Management): 102 out of 9999 authors; 2020 Rank: 163790, with Rank in the SubField (Design Practice & Management): 105 out of 8617 authors
Year 2024: 2023 Top Scholar by ScholarGPS-prior 5 years. #24,566-top 0.16% Globally All Fields (No. 109 in Ireland); #8,318- top 0.33% Globally Engineering and Computer Science (No. 25 in Ireland); #2,294- top 0.34% Globally Electrical and Computer Engineering (No. 9 in Ireland)
Year 2024: Wiley Top Downloaded Article 2022 for our paper: Applications of robotics in floating offshore wind farm operations and maintenance: Literature review and trends
Year 2024: Feature &review Paper in Sensors (MDPI).
Year 2023: UCC President’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching 2023 (leader in the team award) for recognizing his team’s innovative transdisciplinary “Living Lab” approach using Origami
Year 2023: Keynote speaker in 2023 International Conference on the Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research and Application, Shenyang, 14 Sep. 2023.
Year 2023: Outstanding Contribution Award in Education, presented by Ireland Cork Chinese Business Association, 19 Sep. 2023.
Year 2023: The Gold Best Student Paper Award at the 6th IFToMM International Conference on Mechanisms, Transmissions, and Applications, Poitiers, 24-26 May 2023.
Year 2023: Elected as the General Chair of ASME IDETC/CIE 2025
Year 2023: Editor's Choice Articles of 2021 in Actuators (MDPI).
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
[RESEARCH STUDENT AWARDS SUPERVISED/ADVISED]
Year 2026: Xin Zhang, a visiting PhD student of CoMAR, along with other team members, won the Third prize & Best Poster in the global finals and the First prize and Best Team in Ireland for the Invent for the Planet 2026 (IFIP)-a global innovation competition.
Year 2026: Tinghao Liu, awarded a runners-up place for UCC School of Engineering and Architecture Postgraduate Research Publication of the Year 2025 (with a cash prize of 200 Euros)
Year 2026: Kong Zhang, a 4th-year PhD student, was the runner-up (second place) in the Best Poster Competition for PhD students in IEEE RAS UK& Ireland Chapter Annual Conference, held in Maynooth University on 20 Feb. 2026.
Year 2026: Mícheál O Cróinín MacMathúna and Conall Conroy (advised by Prof. G Hao), Transition Year students from Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh, Bishopstown who won 1st place in the Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences category (Intermediate age group) at the Stripe Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, 2026.
Year 2025: Yiran Wang, a second-year PhD student, has been selected as a finalist in the 2025 ASME Student Mechanism and Robot Design Competition (SMRDC) based on her project entitled “A Sheet-Based Contact-Aided Compliant Force-Limiting Mechanism for Microneedle Patches.”
Year 2025: Yiran Wang, a 2nd-year PhD student, winner of the Heidenhain Scholarship for euspen’s 25th International Conference and Exhibition held in Zaragoza, Spain. (10 selected per year across the world)
Year 2025: Joe Rudden, a 4th-year BE student, solo winner of the Best Overall Poster Award in the UCC EEE FYP Open Day (250 Euros prize)
Year 2025: Tinghao Liu, a 4th-year PhD student, winner for UCC School of Engineering and Architecture Postgraduate Research Publication of the Year 2024 (with a cash prize of 500 Euros)
Year 2024: Jiaxiang Zhu, a 4th-year PhD student, finalist of the 2024 ASME Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition (SMRDC), Washington DC, US
Year 2024: Dr. Pongsiri Kuresangsai, awarded the prestigious Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship (2-year) as an international application (success rate is about less than 5%).
Year 2024: Yiran Liu, shortlisted by SEFS for 2024 UCC-CSC PhD scholarship.
Year 2024: Tinghao Liu, a 3rd-year PhD student, winner of the Heidenhain Scholarship for euspen’s 24th International Conference and Exhibition held in Dublin, Ireland. (10 selected per year across the world)
Year 2024: Jiaxiang Zhu, a 4th-year PhD student, winner for UCC School of Engineering and Architecture Postgraduate Research Publication of the Year 2023 (with a cash prize of 500 Euros)
Year 2024: Omer Khalid’s paper was one of the most downloaded during its first 12 months of publication in WIND ENERGY
Year 2024: Kong Zhang’s invited paper selected as Feature Paper in Sensors (MDPI).
Year 2023: Jiaxiang Zhu, a PhD student, won honourable mention in the Second Forum for Chinese PhD students in Ireland and North Ireland
Year 2023: Siyuan Ye, won the 3rd place of the 2023 ASME Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition (SMRDC), August 20-23, 2023, Boston, USA.
Year 2023: Biaoliang Liu, awarded the CSC scholarship for 4-year PhD study
Year 2023: Siyuan Ye, a 3rd-year PhD student, awarded the UCC SEFS PG Travel Bursary 2023 (500 Euros).
Year 2023: Siyuan Ye, a 3rd-year PhD student, won the Gold Best Student Paper Award at the 6th IFToMM International Conference on Mechanisms, Transmissions, and Applications, Poitiers, 24-26 May 2023.
Year 2023: Haitong Liang, runner-up for UCC School of Engineering and Architecture Postgraduate Research Publication of the Year 2022 (with a cash prize of 200 Euros)
Year 2023: Shiyao Li’ s work selected as the Editor's Choice Articles of 2021 in Actuators: “Current Trends and Prospects in Compliant Continuum Robots: A Survey”.
Year 2022: Jiaxiang Zhu’s work selected as the 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: Omer Khalid’s work selected as the Cover image published in Wind Energy based on the Review Article "Applications of robotics in floating offshore wind farm operations and maintenance: Literature review and trends”
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)