Work Experience
Responsibilities: systems design and manufacturing
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Systems Design (Robotics) Engineer (Jun, 2020 — Present)
Omron Robotics and Safety Technologies, Inc.
(San Francisco Bay Area)
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Project: “i4-SCARA High End Robot”
(2019 - Present)
Responsibilities: robot mechanical system design and manufacturing, IP65 and clean room
robot design and certification, analysis and simulation of robot components.
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Project: “i4-SCARA Low End Robot”
(2019 - Present)
Responsibilities: robot calibration design, development of robot configurations, analysis of robot
structures to reduce the cost for mass production.
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Senior Mechanical Engineer (Jan, 2019 — Jun, 2020)
Northwestern University
(Chicago Area)
Advanced Manufacturing Processes Lab.
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
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Project: “Rapid Freeform Sheet Metal Forming”, US Department of Energy (DOE)
(2013 - 2019)
Responsibilities: system design/analysis/fabrication of a novel 3-DOF translational parallel
robots system with high stiffness/accuracy for double sided incremental
forming process.
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Project: “PFI: AIR-TT: Hybrid Tri-pyramid Robot: A Novel Type of Double-Sided Incremental Forming Machine”, US National Science Foundation (NSF)
(2014 - 2018)
Responsibilities: design of hybrid Tri-pyramid Robots for multi-scale (meso/micro) double sided
incremental forming, analysis/fabrication of the novel desktop forming
machine.
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Project: “Electrically-Assisted Tubing Processes for Strengthened Structural Materials of Nuclear Reactor Applications”, DOE
(2015 - 2019)
Responsibilities: design of new incremental rolling machine, analysis of forming structure,
development of the system design method/modeling.
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Project: “Further Development Of Aperture: A Precise Extremely Large Reflective Telescope Using Re-Configurable Elements”, NASA
(2016 - 2019)
Responsibilities: system development and measurement of magnetostrictively deformed mirror
for X-ray telescopes, modeling and data analysis of optomechanical platform.
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Project: “3D Shaping with Tertiary Tool Motion”, NSF
(2011 - 2013)
Responsibilities: design of compliant parallel stage for vibration-assisted machining system,
displacement amplification design in non-resonant ultrasonic mode, compliant
and error modeling of the parallel positioning stages.
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Project: “Deployable Design of Kinematotropic Manipulators”, NSF
(2012 - 2013)
Responsibilities: development of parallel hybrid-loop manipulators with kinematotropic
property and deployability, presented a new design/modeling methodology.
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Project: “Parallel Wedge Precision Stage”, NSF
(2011 - 2012)
Responsibilities: optimize analysis of a parallel wedge stage with ultra-high precision motions,
error predicate modeling and process simulation.
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Senior Research Fellow
(Jan, 2015 — Jan, 2019)
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Postdoctoral Fellow
(Jan, 2011 — Jan, 2015)