Chengkun Zhang Email & Phone Number

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Pasadena, California, Us

https://www.futronicsus.com/index• Craft corporate marketing and business development strategies and roadmaps for North American and international markets.• Define the R&D and product roadmap to penetrate the healthcare market in North America and internationally.• Guide the R&D team, driving the development of innovative AI and Robotics technologies, including scene understanding, SLAM, motion planning and control, soft control, grasping planning and control, fleet management, and more.• Manage the product design team, overseeing the full life cycle of product development for smart mobility robots, service robots, and rehabilitation products.• Conduct comprehensive customer and business partner engagement to gain insights into target market segments and propose customized solutions to fulfill customer requirements.• Orchestrate all corporate operational activities, including R&D, product development, branding, marketing, business development, sales, public communication, finance, and HR.

Shenzhen, Cn

• Led the R&D strategy and product roadmap for the Healthcare Business Unit, guiding engineers and designers to develop advanced service robots and AI-powered solutions for elderly care.• Launched UBTECH Healthcare robots and solutions, integrating intelligent robots with the UBTECH Smart Elder-care Cloud Platform, achieving strong market penetration and commercial success.• Provided technical leadership to refine robot designs, bringing products to TRL9 (Technology Readiness Level 9), and prepared them for mass production by collaborating with vendors and OEMs.• Supported Business Development and Sales teams in identifying opportunities, engaging customers, partners, and government officials, driving revenue growth and market expansion.• Coordinated engineering resources to deploy integrated solutions, gathering customer feedback to ensure continuous improvement and product refinement.

Shenzhen, Cn

• Led the design and integration of critical components for humanoid robots, including robotic hands, neck mechanisms, collaborative arms, and five TRL 6 service robots for elderly care, such as walking assist robots, smart wheelchairs, companion robots, and delivery robots, all within tight timelines and limited resources.• Coordinated cross-functional teams to conduct engineering and user tests, steering the next phases of product design and development.• Established a state-of-the-art lab, streamlining part modification, system integration, and debugging, accelerating product development.• Integrated robotic systems with IoT and Cloud Platforms to deliver end-to-end service solutions for various scenarios.• Incubated UBTECH's Healthcare Business Unit by presenting proof-of-concept products and alpha version solutions for elderly care to executives, the board, and investors, setting the stage for commercialization and growth.

Shenzhen, Cn

• Co-founded the UBTECH North America R&D Center, building a multidisciplinary team and leading the Hardware and Design division from the ground up.• Led market analysis and research in the elderly care sector, defining the technology roadmap and R&D strategy for the North America R&D Center.• Served as product owner, driving the design and development of a logistics robot with a collaborative arm, ensuring it met both business and technical objectives.• Directed the creation of TRL3 prototypes, demonstrating proof of concept for multiple service robots, including mobile humanoid robots, while maintaining alignment with the R&D strategy.

Niskayuna, New York, Us

• Lead an inter-disciplinary engineering task team to drive the development of a next-generation, functionally integrated, and automated manufacturing system for commercial T-Cell therapies.• Drive the commercialization of core technologies in automated inoculum transfer and cell culture as the technical lead.• Deployed high technology readiness level prototypes to strategic partners to validate the design and collect valuable feedbacks on future product development.• Demonstrated accomplishments in R&D of bio-medical devices to stakeholders from GE leadership team, different business units and strategic partners.

Niskayuna, New York, Us

• Led a multi-discipline team to design, prototype, and bio-validate a bio-medical device for automated inoculum transfer from cryo-vials to bioreactors.• Engineering technical lead to expand capability of the Xuri WAVE 25 Bioreactor for T-Cell culture to drastically enhance user experience.• Engineering technical lead on instrumentation and control of a well simulator to address gas slug issues for GE Oil & Gas.

Newark, De, Us

•Design, Fabrication and Control of a Passive Transfemoral Prosthetic Leg– Completed the dynamic modeling, trajectory planning and simulation of a phase-changing robotic system.– Designed, fabricated and implemented a passive transfemoral prosthetic leg with an actuated knee joint and a passive ankle joint.– Trained healthy human subjects wearing the prosthesis to walk with normal walking gaits.– Provided an alternative to conventional prosthese that offers cost saving, energy efficiency and a potentially lighter design.• Design of Feedback Linearizable Under-actuated Systems– Designed a feedback linearizable closed-chain planar under-actuated 2 DOF system, which is a ground breaking study in under-actuated dynamical systems.– Presented a posture control methodology for free-falling twin bodies.– Designed a feedback linearizable 3R under-actuated manipulator with a single input at the second joint.• Design and Modeling of a Flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicle Capable of Asymmetric Flapping– Developed kinematic and dynamic models of a robotic flapping-wing micro air vehicle.– Conducted optimizations to increase the flapping angle while maintaining the flapping phase of both wings.• Experimental Investigation of Effects of Flapping Wing Aspect Ratio and Flexibility on Aerodynamic Performance– Fabricated two sets of wings with different aspect ratios and flexibilities.– Conducted experiments on a robotic flapper to investigate the effects of wing aspect ratio and flexibility on aerodynamic performance.

Newark, De, Us

Assisted professors in teaching undergraduate courses: 1) Statics, 2) Vibration and Control by tutoring, taking lab sessions, grading homeworks, test papers and lab reports.

Cn

• Capsule-based Space Manipulator with Camera as the End-effector– Developed trajectory planning, collision detection and obstacles-avoiding algorithms.– Built a GUI and virtual reality model of the system for implementation and verification of algorithms.• Development of an Obstacles-avoiding Algorithm for Redundant Manipulators– Developed a division-based self-motion algorithm for redundant manipulator to avoid obstacles in a static and known environment.– Constructed a 9 DOF redundant modular manipulator to verify the effectiveness of this algorithm.• Development of a Six-DOF Space Service Manipulator– Simulated the capturing process of the end-effector and analyzed the working space employing ADAMS.– Teamed with group members in testing the prototype on an air bearing platform.– Developed a novel algorithm to recover the system from joint failures to increase the reliability of tasks.

Cn

Assisted a professor from Automation School in teaching Computer Control System Design by grading homeworks and tutoring.

Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Science (M.S.), Detection Technology And Automatic Device

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering And Automation