Dr. Feng joined the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, as an assistant professor in January 2023. She received her dual bachelor’s degrees in Engineering and Management from Tianjin University in 2012. Later, she got her dual Ph.D. degrees from both Clermont Auvergne University and Tianjin University in 2018. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) between 2018 and 2020. Prior to joining SUSTech, she was appointed as Lecturer (2020-2021), and then promoted to Senior Lecturer (2021-2022) in the Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering at Northumbria University (“University of the year 2022” in UK). Her research focuses on deployable structures and origami robots, reconfigurable mechanisms and reconfigurable robots, kinematics, and the design of chiral mechanisms and metamaterials. She has published over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles in renowned international journals including Research, Mechanism and Machine Theory, ASME Transactions, Applied Physics Letters, etc. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, serves as the Associate Editor of the top journal Mechanism and Machine Theory, the Guest Editor of the journal Materials and the Editorial Board Member of the "Robotics Science and Technology Series" of Higher Education Press. She served in the program committee of the 2021 IEEE/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR 2021), co-organized the 2023 ASME Student Mechanism and Robot Design Competition (SMRDC) and will continue playing her roles in IEEE/IFToMM ReMAR 2024 and 2024 ASME SMRDC.

Education：

◆ 2015.09 ~ 2018.06, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Clermont Auvergne University, France. 

◆ 2012.09 ~ 2018.06, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, China.

◆ 2010.03 ~ 2012.06, B.M., Construction Management, Tianjin University, China.

◆ 2008.09 ~ 2012.06, B. Eng., Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation, Tianjin University, China.

Work Experience:

◆ 2023.01 ~ present, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China.

◆ 2020.07 ~ 2022.12, Senior Lecturer (2021.08-2022.12), Lecturer (2020.07-2021.07), Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering, Northumbria University, UK.

◆ 2018.09 ~ 2020.06, Postdoc, EPFL, Switzerland.

Professional Activities:

◆ Associate Editor, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2022.06-present

◆ Editorial Board Member, "Robotics Science and Technology Series" , Higher Education Press, 2023.07-present

◆ Guest Editor of special issue “Mechanical metamaterials and their applications”, Materials, 2022.01-2022.12

◆ IEEE/IFToMM ReMAR 2024, Program Committee

◆ IEEE/IFToMM ReMAR 2021, Program Committee

◆ 2024 ASME Student Mechanism and Robot Design Competition, Organizer

◆ 2023 ASME Student Mechanism and Robot Design Competition, Organizer

◆ Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2022.06-present

Honors & Awards：

◆ Nomination of Teaching Award (30/1600+), Northumbria University, 2022.

◆ Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2018.

◆ Chinese Government Scholarship, China Scholarship Council (CSC), 100/4000+ in Tianjin University, 2016.

Representative Publications:

◆ H. Feng, G. Jia, Y. Lin and J.S. Dai, 2023, Jubilee Review: The 65 Years of the ASME Machine Design Award (1958–2023), Journal of Mechanical Design, 145(8): 080301.

◆ S. Ye, P. Zhao, Y. Zhao, F. Kavousi, H. Feng and G. Hao, 2022, A novel radially closable tubular origami structure (RC-ori) for valves, Actuators, 11(9): 243.

◆ H. Zhang, H. Feng, J.L. Huang and J. Paik, 2021, Generalized modeling of origami folding joints, Extreme Mechanics Letters, 45: 101213.

◆ J. Ma, S. Zang, H. Feng, Y. Chen and Z. You, 2021, Theoretical characterization of a non-rigid-foldable square-twist origami for property programmability, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 189: 105981.

◆ W. Lin, K. Chen, Y. Gao, A. Chen, F. Yang and H. Feng, 2021, A toy-inspired kirigami pattern and its kinematic performance by applying mechanisms and machine theory. Mechanical Sciences, 12(2), 933-943.

◆ T. Mukhopadhyay, J. Ma, H. Feng, D. Hou, J. Gattas, Y. Chen and Z. You, 2020, Programmable stiffness and shape modulation in origami materials: Emergence of a distant actuation feature, Applied Materials Today, 19: 100537.

◆ H. Feng, R. Peng, S. Zang, J. Ma and Y. Chen, 2020, Rigid foldability and mountain-valley crease assignments of square-twist origami pattern, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 152: 103947.

◆ H. Feng, W. Lv, J. Ma, W. Chang, Y. Chen and J. Wang, 2020, Helical structures with switchable and hierarchical chirality, Applied Physics Letters, 116(19): 194102.

◆ J. Ma#, H. Feng#, Y. Chen, D. Hou and Z. You, 2020, Folding of tubular waterbomb, Research, 2020: 1735081. (Co-first author)

◆ X. Kang, H. Feng, J.S. Dai and H. Yu, 2020, High-order based revelation of bifurcation of novel Schatz-inspired metamorphic mechanisms using screw theory, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 152: 103931.

◆ H. Feng, J. Ma and Y. Chen, 2020, Rigid folding of generalized waterbomb origami tubes, Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 56 (19): 143-159. (in Chinese)

◆ X. Chen, H. Feng, J. Ma and Y. Chen, 2019, A plane linkage and its tessellation for deployable structure, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 142: 103605.

◆ H. Feng, J. Ma, Y. Chen and Z. You, 2018, Twist of tubular mechanical metamaterials based on waterbomb origami, Scientific Reports, 8(1): 9522.

◆ H. Feng, R. Peng, J. Ma and Y. Chen, 2018, Rigid foldability of generalized triangle twist origami pattern and its derived 6R linkages, Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics-Transactions of the ASME, 10(5): 051003.

◆ H. Feng, M. Yang, G. Yao, Y. Chen and J.S. Dai, 2018, Origami robots, Scientia Sinica Technologica, 48 (12): 1259-1274. (in Chinese)

◆ H. Feng, Y. Chen, J.S. Dai and G. Gogu, 2017, Kinematic study of the general plane-symmetric Bricard linkage and its bifurcation variations, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 116: 89-104.

◆ Y. Chen, H. Feng, J. Ma, R. Peng and Z. You, 2016, Symmetric waterbomb origami, Proceedings of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 472(2190): 20150846.

◆ C.Y. Song, H. Feng, Y. Chen, I.M. Chen and R. Kang, 2015, Reconfigurable mechanism generated from the network of Bennett linkages, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 88: 49-62.

◆ H. Feng, R. Kang and Y. Chen, 2015, Workspace analysis of a reconfigurable mechanism generated from the network of Bennett linkages, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR 2015), Beijing, China, 20-22 July.