Dr. Guobiao HU

Principal Investigator

    Dr. Hu has published more than 100 peer-reviewed technical papers in prestigious journals and international conferences, with 5 being ESI highly cited papers. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Finalist Award at the SPIE Conference on Smart Structures/NDE in 2018. He has filed 4 patents, including 1 Singapore patent and 3 Chinese patents. According to Google Scholar statistics in August 2024, his publications have received over 2900 citations with an H-index of 30. He is featured in the world's top 2% of Scientists List (2022) identified by Stanford University. He serves as reviewer for more than 60 SCI journals and guest editor for the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics and ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering.

Research Interests

  • Energy Harvesting
  • Acoustic-Elastic Metamaterials
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Piezoelectric Materials

Appointments

  • 2022.11-Present, Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ)
  • 2020.03-2022.10, Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University
  • 2019.08-2019.12, Research Associate, The University of Auckland

Education

  • 2015.08-2019.07, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Auckland
  • 2012.09-2015.07, M.Sc in Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University
  • 2010.09-2012.07, Diplôme d'Ingénieur in General Engineering, École centrale de Paris
  • 2008.09-2012.07, B.Ec. in Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University

Honors & Awards

  • 2019.05, Research Excellence Scholarship, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UoA, New Zealand
  • 2018.11, Merit Scholarship, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UoA, New Zealand
  • 2016.07, CSC Doctoral Scholarship, China Scholarship Council, China
  • 2015.05, EET PhD Research Scholarship, Energy Education Trust, New Zealand
  • 2014.09, First-class Postgraduate Scholarship, SWJTU, China
  • 2013.09, First-class Postgraduate Scholarship, SWJTU, China
  • 2012.09, First-class Postgraduate Scholarship, SWJTU, China
  • 2010.07, Eiffel Scholarship, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, France
  • 2010.05, First-class Undergraduate Scholarship, SWJTU, China
  • 2009.11, National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China
  • 2009.11, Merit Student, SWJTU, China
  • 2009.05, First-class Undergraduate Scholarship, SWJTU, China

Students and Mentoring

  • Xuzhang PENG (彭绪彰), (Ph.D., 2023)
  • Hao TANG (唐浩), (Ph.D., 2023)
  • Yawei WANG (王雅巍), (Ph.D., 2023)
  • Yusong WANG (王钰淞), (Ph.D., 2023)
  • Yihao LI (黎一豪), (MPhil, 2023)
  • Yizhou LI (李逸舟), (MPhil, 2023)
  • Dian LI (李典), (MPhil, 2023)
  • Yi WU (吴佚), (RA, 2023)
  • Jingyi LIU (刘婧仪), (RA, 2023-2024)
  • Depeng SU (苏德鹏）, (Ph.D., 2024)
  • Ye ZHANG (张野）, (RA, 2024)
  • Chengyun DU (杜承运）, (RA, 2024)