Xiaoguang Dong
Postdoctoral Researcher
Alumni
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I am working on designing the shape-morphing behaviors (single-body deformation and collective formations) in various soft matter to create functional miniature soft machines or minimally invasive medical devices, tightly integrated with their wireless actuation (e.g. magnetic), control and sensing systems, for biomedical, fluidics, and biomechanics applications. Ongoing research highlight includes developing novel minimally invasive medical functions of soft miniature robots, such as biofluid pumping and targeted biopsy.
Dr. Xiaoguang Dong is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Physical Intelligence Department. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering (specialized in Robotics) from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA in 2016 and 2019, respectively. Before that, he obtained the B.S. degree in Automation (Control Science and Engineering) in 2013 from Harbin Institute of Technology, China.
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2010 China National Scholarship (国家奖学金), Top 1% of Harbin Institute of Technology, China
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2011 China National Scholarship, Top 1% of Harbin Institute of Technology, China
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2012 China National Scholarship, Top 1% of Harbin Institute of Technology, China
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2013 President Li Chang Award (优秀学生李昌校长奖学金), 5 undergraduates every two years in Harbin Institute of Technology, China
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2013-2014, Ph.D. Graduate Fellowship in the Mechanical Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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2015 Inside front cover of Lab-on-a-Chip, Volume 15 Number 7 (link)
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2016-2019 Max Planck Ph.D. Fellowship (Max Planck Society, Germany)
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2020 Grassroots Funding (17,000 euros, Max Planck Society, Germany)
Bioinspired cilia arrays with programmable nonreciprocal motion and metachronal coordination
Bioinspired cilia help understand which movement pattern generates maximal fluid flows, and enable efficient pumping of biofluids.
Three-dimensional heterogeneous assembly of coded microgels using an untethered mobile microgripper
Mobile soft grippers enable constructing 3D hydrogel stuctures for potential biomedical applications.
Controlling two-dimensional collective formation and cooperative behavior of magnetic microrobot swarms
A generic design method enables controlling swarm magnetic microrobots with a significantly higher complexity in collective formation and more advanced cooperative functionalities compared with previous works.
Controlling two-dimensional collective formation and cooperative behavior of magnetic microrobot swarms
A large number of microrobots could work closely and cooperatively for complex manipulation tasks for the first time.
Reconfigurable multifunctional ferrofluid droplet robots
We report a method to actuate and control ferrofluid droplets as shape-programmable magnetic miniature soft robots, which can navigate in two dimensions through narrow channels much smaller than their sizes thanks to their liquid properties.