Oct. 2025: Obtain the Publication Award for Engineering Research Postgraduate Students, granted to 10 students in recognition of outstanding research contributions by The University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Engineering.
Aug. 2025: Our work “Competition and Synergy in Programmable Open Microfluidics: Thermal Fields vs Structural Heterogeneities” has been published on Nano Letters and selected as the Supplementary Cover.
Jul. 2025: Obtain the HKU Foundation First Year Excellent PhD Award, a prestigious honor granted to <15 top-performing PhD students annually across all disciplines at The University of Hong Kong.
May 2025: Our work “Self-Regulated Photoresponsive Heterogeneous PNIPAM Hydrogel Actuators” has been published in Nanoscale and selected as the Inside Front Cover.
Jan. 2025: Our work “Smart Directional Liquid Manipulation on Curvature-Ratchet Surfaces” has been published on ACS Nano.
Dec. 2024: Receive my first research grant of 300,000 RMB from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
Sep. 2024: Accept the invitation to serve as the Guest Editor of PLOS ONE.
Jul. 2024: Our work “Reconfigurability-Encoded Hierarchical Rectifiers for Versatile 3D Liquid Manipulation” has been published on Advanced Science and selected as the Inside Front Cover.
Feb. 2024: My work “Bioinspired multi-asymmetric magnetized surfaces for tailored liquid operations and 3-DOF solid transport” has been published on Sensors and Actuators A: Physical.
Aug. 2023: Our work “Design, Actuation, and Functionalization of Untethered Soft Magnetic Robots with Life-Like Motions: A Review” has been published on Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.
Jun. 2023: Begin my PhD study at The University of Hong Kong.
Feb. 2023: Our work “Flagellar/Ciliary Intrinsic Driven Mechanism Inspired All-In-One Tubular Robotic Actuator” has been published on Engineering.
Dec. 2020: The first wedding anniversary!
Nov. 2022: Our work “Asymmetric soft-structure functional surface for intelligent liquids’ distinction, transportation, and reaction mixer” has been published on Advanced Functional Materials.
Oct. 2022: Our work “Natural cilia and pine needles combinedly inspired asymmetric pillar actuators for all-space liquid transport and self-regulated robotic locomotion” has been published on ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Aug. 2022: Acquire the Research Tuition Scholarship (awarded by CityU, TOP 20%).
Jul. 2022: Our work “Soft tunable gelatin robot with insect-like claw for grasping, transportation, and delivery” has been published on ACS Applied Polymer Materials.
Jun. 2022: Our work “EEG Signals Based Internet Addiction Diagnosis Using Convolutional Neural Networks” has been published on Applied Sciences.
Apr. 2022: Our work “Nanofiber-based biodegradable millirobot with controllable anchoring and adaptive stepwise release functions” has been published on Matter.
Jan. 2022: Our work “A smartphone-based calibration-free portable urinalysis device” has been published on Journal of Central South University.
Nov. 2021: Our work “Magnetic Artificial Cilia Carpets for Transport, Mixing, and Directional Diffusion” has been published on Advanced Engineering Materials.
Aug. 2021: Acquire the Research Tuition Scholarship (awarded by CityU, TOP 20%).
Jan. 2021: Our work “Enhancing Swimming Performance by Optimizing Structure of Helical Swimmers” has been published on Sensors.
Jun. 2020: Graduate from Dalian University of Technology and acquire the best graduate thesis award (1 out of 105).