Hao Jiang

Hao Jiang has a wealth of experience in product design, engineering, and research. Hao began their career in 2010 as a Research Assistant at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where they designed a peripheral circuit interface for transplanting the microcontroller from the Hardware-In-the-Loop platform to the 6DOF quadrotor for flight testing, an initialization mechanism for a 3DOF quadrotor Hardware-In-the-Loop platform, and Fault Tolerant Control using Trajectory Linearization approach for quadrotor losing propellers. In 2012, they became a Research Assistant at Stanford University, where they designed and built large scale robotic grippers to grapple and recycle up to 400 kg space debris in free floating environments by attaching to flat and curved surfaces, and designed and modeled insect-inspired micro-spine grippers for UAVs to land and perch on outdoor, vertical and inverted rough surfaces. In 2017, they joined Apple as an iPad Product Design Intern, where they were one of 10 finalists of 90 entries in the Apple new idea and technology iContest, and conducted failure analysis for a field issue on a shipping project. Hao also joined Flexiv Ltd. in 2017, where they have held three roles: Director of Product Development - Sensing, Actuation, Grasping, and Manipulation, Tech Lead, Manager - Sensing and Grasping, and Mechanical Engineer - Sensing. In these roles, they have been leading full cycles of product development of various force/torque sensors, actuation modules, grasping solutions, and robotic manipulators from technology exploration all the way to mass production, and co-leading the full cycle of product certification for ISO-10218, ISO-13849, and ISO-15066.

Hao Jiang attended Beihang University from 2008 to 2012, where they earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mechanical Engineering. Hao then went on to Stanford University, where they earned a Master of Science (M.S.) in Mechanical Engineering in 2014 and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Mechanical Engineering and Robotics in 2017.