The Bionic Design + Learning Lab is led by Dr. Song Chaoyang at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), with research interests in Bionic Design, Robot Learning, and Design Science. Dr. Song completed his undergraduate degree at Tongji University, Shanghai, China, in 2009 and his Ph.D. at the Robotics Research Center at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2014. His doctoral research focuses on the theoretical kinematics of a class of overconstrained linkages, dealing with the fundamental mechanism theory in robotics and mechanical engineering. During the post-doc study, Dr. Song joined the newly founded Singapore University of Technology and Design. His post-doc research moves towards the application end of research and development, investigating the technological and design innovation factor in successfully translating lab results into commercial products. He continued his post-doc research topic at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining SUSTech, Dr. Song was appointed as a tenured Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Monash University, where the Sustainable + Intelligent Robotics Group was initially formed. We updated the lab name as the newly formed SUSTech Institute of Robotics shares the same acronym.
