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Hello! Welcome to my website. My name is Xinghao Huang. I am a Ph.D. mechanical engineering student working in Professor Hangbo Zhao’s research group at the University of Southern California. My research focuses on developing novel sensors for soft robots and medical devices. I also have a wide-range of interests in precision instruments, mechatronics, and machine learning.
Get in touch >> xinghaoh@usc.edu
My Areas
Microfabrication for flexible/stretchable electronics
Since 2020, I have acquired key skills such as lithography, transfer printing, FEA, and controlled mechanical buckling assembly. With these skills, I began to design and fabricate various 2D/3D piezoresistive and capacitive sensors.
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Soft robotics and conventional robotics
Robotics inspired me to study mechanical engineering. Through years, I have developed various rigid-link robots and autonomous vehicles. Part of my recent research will also focus on the sensing and reconstruction of soft robots.
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Precision instrument and linear system
The internship experiences at Bruker, Lumentum, Denali Photonics, and Alcon, along with previous research/projects, allowed me to build various mechatronic systems that are capable of both precise motions and accurate sensing.
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Publications
High-stretchability and low-hysteresis strain sensors using origami-inspired 3D mesostructures, Science Advances, 9, eadh9799, 2023. [doi]
X. Huang, Y.H. Lin, R. Feng, Y. Shen, Y. Chang, H. Zhao
Transfer Printing Technologies and Applications, In Materials Today, Elsevier, 2024, Pages 207-230, ISBN 9780443188459. [doi]
Engineering route for stretchable, three-dimensional microarchitectures of wide bandgap semiconductors for biomedical applications, Advanced Functional Materials, 2211781, 2023. [doi].
T.-A. Truong, T.K. Nguyen, X. Huang, A. Ashok, S. Yadav, Y. Park, M.T. Thai, N.-K. Nguyen, H. Fallahi, S. Peng, S. Dimitrijev, Y.-C. Toh, Y. Yamauchi, C.H. Wang, N.H. Lovell, J.A. Rogers, T.N. Do, N.-T. Nguyen, H. Zhao, H.-P. Phan
Polymer-like inorganic double helical Van Der Waals semiconductor, Nano Letters, 22, 9054-9061, 2022. [doi]
J. Wu, N. Wang, Y.-R. Xie, H. Liu, X. Huang, X. Cong, H.-Y. Chen, J. Ma, F. Liu, H. Zhao, J. Zhang, P.-H. Tan, H. Wang
Fluidic Fabric Muscle Sheets for Wearable and Soft Robotics. Soft Robotics. Apr 2020. 179-197. [doi]
M. Zhu, T. N. Do, E. W. Hawkes, Y. Visell.