Principal Investigator
DUAN, Molong
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Associate Director of the Research Center on Smart Manufacturing
Research areas
- Modeling and control of dynamic systems
- Robotic manufacturing vibration compensation
- Additive manufacturing control
- Continuous-fiber additive manufacturing
- Flexible aircraft modeling and control
- VTOL aircraft modeling and control
Contact details
- Email: duan@ust.hk
- Tel: (+852) 3469-3024
- Address: Room 2570, HKUST Academic Building
- Department/School/Institute profiles: MAE , SENG , RI
Postdoctoral fellows
GUO, Zeshi
Fiber-reinforced composite additive manufacturing; In-situ resource utilization on the Moon and Mars
SHI, Yu
Robust control; Reinforcement learning; Robotic locomotion and manipulation
PhD students
MPhil students
Role Assignment
Digital Assets
| Name | Group | Assigned Role | Main Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, Yutong | Digital Assets | Group Leader + Projects & Publications Manager | Leader: assign tasks, check progress, summarize weekly work, and report in the group meeting. Group: maintain projects, repositories, papers, research pages, PDFs, code links, and related digital assets. |
| HE, Shuaiyin | Digital Assets | Code Archive & Open-source Manager | Manage code archiving standards, repositories, versions, and links; identify useful open-source resources and route related tasks. |
| ZHOU, Yi | Digital Assets | Publication Watch & Submission Coordinator | Track newly published or accepted papers and project outputs; contact authors; collect submission/request information; maintain the pending asset list. |
| SUN, Bingjie | Digital Assets | Open-source & Content Support | Support open-source resource collection, basic information checks, short descriptions, reproduce the repositories, and tasks assigned by senior members. |
Public Relations
| Name | Group | Assigned Role | Main Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAW, Fu Chung | PR | Group Leader + Video Publishing Manager | Leader: assign tasks, check progress, summarize weekly work, and report in the group meeting. Group: responsible for video release and maintenance of accounts on platforms such as Bilibili, YouTube, etc. |
| MEI, Yihan | PR | Website Content Manager | Collect website content requests, coordinate task routing, and update project, news, and publication-related website content. |
| CHEN, Hongyi | PR | Website Information Manager | Maintain the People page of website. Work with Website Content Manager on sustainable website updates. |
| CHEUNG, Yim Ho | PR | Video Production Manager | Responsible for video production, editing, and material organization |
| CHONG, Sung-jin | PR | News & Social Media Manager (Global) | Responsible for publishing long articles and short posts on platforms such as X and Instagram. |
| LOU, Gao | PR | News & Social Media Manager (Mainland) | Responsible for publishing long articles and short posts on platforms such as WeChat and Xiaohongshu. |
Hardware & Operations
| Name | Group | Assigned Role | Main Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, Fang | Hardware & Operations | Group Leader + Equipment Operations Manager | Leader: assign tasks, check progress, summarize weekly work, and report in the group meeting. Group: coordinate equipment, facilities, consumables, seating, and day-to-day lab operations. |
| WANG, Sichen | Hardware & Operations | Seating & Workspace Manager | Manage seat arrangement, workspace records, new-member seat allocation, seat adjustments, and recovery of unused seats. |
| LAI, Chunhin | Hardware & Operations | Facilities & Workspace Manager | Maintain lab and office facilities; support workspace changes, offline setup, and daily space coordination. |
| CHEN, Hongyi | Hardware & Operations | Facilities & Workspace Manager (SHCIRI) | Maintain lab and office facilities; support workspace changes, offline setup, and daily space coordination. |
| ASGHAR, Arafat | Hardware & Operations | Consumables & Shared Resources Manager | Manage consumables, tools, and shared-resource inventory; track restocking needs, storage rules, and routine resource checks. |
| WU, Yishang | Hardware & Operations | Knowledge Base Manager | Maintain website/wiki SOPs, templates, FAQs, documentation, and content workflows (Define how to handle group wiki, device usage, organize paper writing content, and exam procedures); |
Alumni
| Name | Role | Time | Thesis / Research Area | Current position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, Shuai | PhD Student | 2022- | Vibration compensation in additive manufacturing; Cable-driven parallel robots. | Work in Industry |
| YANG, Yuexin | PhD Student | 2022- | Thermal-camera-enabled additive manufacturing control. | Work in Industry |
| HUANG, Bowen | Research Assistant | 2025 | Robot modeling and control. | PhD student @ HKUST(GZ) |
| HUANG, Shifeng | Postdoctoral Fellow | 2024- | Dynamic modeling and identification of industrial robots; calibration and compensation of kinematic errors. | Asst. Prof. @ Hunan University |
| HE, Dong | Postdoctoral Fellow | 2024 | Multi-axis additive and subtractive manufacturing. | Assoc. Prof. @ Southeast University |
| BI, Danjie | PhD Student | 2022- | Path and process planning in multi-axis additive manufacturing; composite additive manufacturing. | Work in Industry |