Zhen Huang

Zhen Huang was born in China in 1936. He received his B.S. degree of mechanical engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, China, in 1959. Since then he joined the staff of Northeast Heavy Machinery Institute in Qiqihar, China, and worked successively as an Instructor and Associate Professor. From 1982 to 1984, he was a Visiting Scholar at CIMAR of the University of Florida in Gainesville, USA. Since 1986, he has been a Professor at Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China. He has been leading the Robotics Research Center since 1984, and he is currently the Honor Director of the center. Huang is a Senior Member of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES), the Honor Director of Mechanism Institution Committee, CMES, and a Member of the Standing Committee of the Mechanical Transmission Institution, CMES. He published three books in Chinese. He has also three book chapters and more than 112 papers in international journals and international conference proceedings. He was awarded the first prize of nature science of the Ministry of Education of China in 2006, the first prize of nature science of Hebei Province of China in 2005, and the first prize of nature science of Hebei Province on his second Book in 2000. He was also the recipient of the first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the National Education Commission of China in 1991. His research mainly focuses on parallel mechanisms and parallel manipulators, including the following six aspects: topological analysis of kinematic chains; unified mobility criterion of mechanisms; type synthesis of parallel mechanisms; kinematics and dynamics of parallel mechanisms; singularity of parallel mechanisms; balancing problem of mechanisms.

Biography Updated on 12 April 2008