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 Senior Lecturer (2021-2022) in the Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering at Northumbria University. Her research focuses on origami 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 (including over 10 articles as first/ corresponding author) in international journals including Research, Mechanism and Machine Theory, Applied Physics Letters, etc. She serves as the Associate Editor of the top journal Mechanism and Machine Theory.

Research Area
◆ Origami structures and origami robots: design and analysis of origami structures, design and modeling of origami robots
◆ Reconfigurable mechanisms and reconfigurable robots: singularity and bifurcation analysis of mechanisms, reconfiguration design of mechanisms and robots 

◆ Kinematics： kinematics of spatial mechanisms, screw theory

◆ Chiral mechanisms and metamaterials： design of chiral mechanisms and chiral robots, design and analysis of metamaterials

Work Experience:
◆ Jan. 2023-present, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China.
◆ Jul. 2020-Dec. 2022, Senior Lecturer (2021.8-2022.12), Lecturer (2020.7-2021.7), Northumbria University, UK.
◆ Sep. 2018-Jun. 2020, Postdoc, EPFL, Switzerland.

Education：
◆ Sep. 2015-Jun. 2018, Ph.D., Clermont Auvergne University, France 
◆ Sep. 2012-Jun. 2018, Ph.D., Tianjin University, China.
◆ Sep. 2008-Jun. 2012, B. Eng., Tianjin University, China.

Representative Publications:

◆ H. Feng, R. Peng, S. Zang, J. Ma, 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, J. Wang, 2020, Helical structures with switchable and hierarchical chirality, Applied Physics Letters, 116(19): 194102.

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

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

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

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

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