Group members

Prof Xingjian JING

Prof X.J. Jing received his B.S. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, M.S. degree and PhD degree in Robotics from Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China. He also received a PhD degree in nonlinear systems and signal processing from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K..

He is now a Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong (CityU). Before joining in CityU, he was a Research Fellow with the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, working on biomedical signal processing, and followed by assistant professor and associate professor with Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). His current research interests are generally related to Nonlinear Dynamics, Vibration, and Control focusing on theory and methods for employing nonlinear benefits in engineering, including nonlinear frequency domain methods, nonlinear system identification or signal processing, vibration control, robust control, sensor technology, energy harvesting, nonlinear fault diagnosis or information processing, bio-inspired systems and methods, and robotics etc.

Prof Jing received 2016 IEEE SMC Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award for the robust control theory in vehicle suspension systems; The passive anti-vibration structure developed by his group received 2017 TechConnect Innovation Award, recognized as the top 20% of all submitted technologies as ranked by the TechConnect Corporate & Investment Partner Committee, which was also reported in many local media press including a specific interview in a TVB program in 2017; He was honored with the 2017 EASD Senior Research Prize in the area of development of methodologies for structural dynamics due to “his important contributions for the analysis and design of nonlinear systems”, awarded by the European Association for Structural Dynamics (EASD), which is an important and prestigious once-3-year event in Europe; The innovative technology BIAVE (bio-inspired anti-vibration exoskeleton for operating hand-held demolition tools) invented by his R&D team received the 2017 Hong Kong CIC Construction Innovation Award (The First Prize in Construction Safety, one of the three First Prizes among more than 120 submissions), which is an important well-recognized once-2-year event in HK with international peers as award committee members each time.

Prof Jing currently serves as Associate Editors of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, and IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man & Cybernetics-Systems. He also served as Technical Editor of IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics during 2015-2020. He was the lead editor of a special issue on “Employing nonlinear benefits in engineering” published in the archive journal MSSP in 2019, lead editor of special issue on “Next generation of vibration control exploiting nonlinearities” to be published in MSSP in 2022, and served as the general chair of ICANDVC2021 Zhuhai, China. 

Prof Jing is a Senior IEEE member, and actively participate different R&D and scholar activities serving industry government programmes and international conferences.

On-going research staff

ZHU Zhenghan, Research Assistant

       Nonlinear vibration control

LUO Caoqun, Postdoc

      Nonlinear vibration control

WU Shilin, Postdoc

Robot design and control

Previous research staff

ZHAO Zhipeng, Postdoctor

     Nonlinear vibration control

HU Feizhou, Research Assistant

     Nonlinear vibration control

• PhD  students (On-going):

             Yu Bohan, 08/2023-

                  Bio-inspired marine robot design and control

             FENG Zixuan, 06/2023-

                  Nonlinear systems: frequency domain methods and fault detection

LONG Guimin (Sep 2022-)

Smart sensor systems and application

LIU Chuanping (Aug 2022-)

Nonlinear vibration; Metamaterials

XU Ke (Aug 2022-)

Nonlinear system identification, analysis & design

HUANG Lu (July 2022-)

Navigation  and motion planning

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Mohamed A. A. Abdelkareem

Anti-vibration structures and energy harvesting

Supported by UGC HK

ZHOU Zengcheng

Bio-inspired underwater robots: Design, modelling and control

Supported by ITF project

CHAO Xu

Bio-inspired underwater robots: Design and analysis

Supported by ITF project

• Graduated PhD students

                        HAMEED Imran

Control of Robotic fish

Supported by UGC HK

                        LI Meng

Nonlinear energy harvesting: methods & design

Supported by a GRF project

                       BIAN Jing

Displacement dependent nonlinear damping via structural design with a bio-inspired approach

Supported by UGC HK

LI Jingying *

Robust control and filtering design

Supported by external funds under university dual degree programme

LI Zhengchao *

Robust control and filtering design

Supported by external funds under university dual degree programme

LI Quankun

Fault-incurred nonlinearity characterization and detection using nonlinear analysis in the frequency domain

Supported by GRF projects

PAN Huihui *

Nonlinear control methods

Supported by my industrial project under university dual degree programme

     WANG Hong 

Analysis and optimization of time series data with applications to structure health monitoring 

Supported by industrial funds

     WU Zhijing *

Nonlinear vibration isolation

Supported by my industrial project under university dual degree programme

     XIAO Zhenlong -

       Nonlinear analysis in the frequency domain

The stipend paid by a GRF project -- the first PhD student recruited

     SUN Xiuting -*

Analysis and design of nonlinear vibration isolators

The stipend paid by my industrial project -- the first dual degree PhD student recruited

* Under dual degree program, it is eligible only for those who have industrial projects.