Mingsong Jiang

mingsongj.github.io

I am an enthusisatic robotics researcher focusing on the development of future reconfigurable and multi-functional robots via smart materials, robot compositions and manufacturing. For future robots to replace human labors in boring, repetitive and dangerous jobs, they are also required to yield safe, collaborative and adaptive behaviors in all human involved circumstances.

I believe robot equal intelligence in both physical and algorithmic domains. As a hands-on roboticist, I seek to exploit engineering benefits from both rigid and soft materials and structures, and to combine those for establishing future robots with reconfigurable states and multi-modal functionalities. Specifically, my research goals can be addressed via 1) reconfigurable hard and soft robot designs and mechanisms; 2) safe human-robot interface and soft functional robotic devices; and 3) smart robot manufacutring and biomimetic robotic features.

Current Position

Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University (2023.4 - current)

Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science
Advisor: Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
Group: Yale Faboratory

Education

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at UC San Diego (2018-2021)

Thesis: Towards Reconfigurable and Adaptive Soft Robots via Hybrid Materials, Designs and Mechanisms
Advisor: Nicholas Gravish
Group: Gravish Lab

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at UC San Diego (2016-2018)

Thesis: Sliding-layer laminates: a new robotic material enabling robust and adaptable undulatory locomotion
Advisor: Nicholas Gravish
Group: Gravish Lab

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong Univ. (2012-2016)

Thesis: Design and fabrication of a 3D printed rehabilitative and wearable hand exoskeleton
Advisor: Jing Wang