Research direction：Engineering informatics for design and manufacturing, CADCAM, and product lifecycle management. He has been teaching a number of courses including mechanical engineering design, manufacturing systems, engineering informatics, and engineering management.

Research direction：Smart soft matter, living matter, 3D/4D printing, nanomanufacturing, biomimetics, micro/nanooptics.

Research direction：dynamic walking, biped and humanoid robots, powered prosthesis, lower limb exoskeleton and human robot interaction

Research direction：Soft Robotics, Underwater Robots, Medical Robots, Biomimetic and Control, Special-purpose Robots