Faculty Profiles - HU Wenqi | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2025 1

Hemodynamics modeling with physics-informed neural networks: A progressive boundary complexity approach

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, v. 438, (Part B), April 2025, article number 117851
Chen, Xi; Yang, Jianchuan; Liu, Xu; Luo, Qiang; Chen, Mao; Hu, Wenqi
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2024 1

Wireless flow-powered miniature robot capable of traversing tubular structures

Science Robotics, v. 9, (88), March 2024, article number eadi5155
Hong, Chong; Wu, Yingdan; Wang, Che; Ren, Ziyu; Wang, Chunxiang; Liu, Zemin; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin
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2023 5

A versatile jellyfish-like robotic platform for effective underwater propulsion and manipulation

Science Advances, v. 9, (15), April 2023, article number eadg0292
Wang, Tianlu; Joo, Hyeong-Joon; Song, Shanyuan; Hu, Wenqi; Keplinger, Christoph; Sitti, Metin
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Bioinspired rotary flight of light-driven composite films

Nature Communications, v. 14, (1), August 2023, article number 5070
Wang, Dan; Chen, Zhaomin; Li, Mingtong; Hou, Zhen; Zhan, Changsong; Zheng, Qijun; Wang, Dalei; Wang, Xin; Cheng, Mengjiao; Hu, Wenqi; Dong, Bin; Shi, Feng; Sitti, Metin
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Concurrent Actuation and Sensing in Fluid by Cilia-Like Transducers

Advanced Intelligent Systems, v. 5, (8), August 2023, article number 2300046
Wang, Wenkang; Song, Shanyuan; Hu, Wenqi
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Dandelion-Inspired, Wind-Dispersed Polymer-Assembly Controlled by Light

Advanced Science, v. 10, (7), March 2023, article number 2206752
Yang, Jianfeng; Zhang, Hang; Berdin, Alex; Hu, Wenqi; Zeng, Hao
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Magnetically assisted soft milli-tools for occluded lumen morphology detection

Science Advances, v. 9, (33), August 2023, article number eadi3979
Yan, Yingbo; Wang, Tianlu; Zhang, Rongjing; Liu, Yilun; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin
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2022 8

Adaptive wireless millirobotic locomotion into distal vasculature

Nature Communications, v. 13, (1), August 2022, article number 4465
Wang, Tianlu; Ugurlu, Halim; Yan, Yingbo; Li, Mingtong; Li, Meng; Wild, Anna-Maria; Yildiz, Erdost; Schneider, Martina; Sheehan, Devin; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin
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Creating three-dimensional magnetic functional microdevices via molding-integrated direct laser writing

Nature Communications, v. 13, (1), April 2022, article number 2016
Liu, Zemin; Li, Meng; Dong, Xiaoguang; Ren, Ziyu; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin
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Liquid Metal-Elastomer Composites with Dual-Energy Transmission Mode for Multifunctional Miniature Untethered Magnetic Robots

Advanced Science, v. 9, (31), November 2022, article number 2203730
Zhang, Jiachen; Soon, Ren Hao; Wei, Zihan; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin
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Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots

Science Robotics, v. 7, (69), August 2022, article number abo4401
Hong, Chong; Ren, Ziyu; Wang, Che; Li, Mingtong; Wu, Yingdan; Tang, Dewei; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin
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Miniature coiled artificial muscle for wireless soft medical devices

Science Advances, v. 8, (10), March 2022, article number eabm5616
Li, Mingtong; Tang, Yichao; Soon, Ren Hao; Dong, Bin; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin
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On-demand anchoring of wireless soft miniature robots on soft surfaces

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 119, (34), August 2022, article number e2207767119
Soon, Ren Hao; Ren, Ziyu; Hu, Wenqi; Bozuyuk, Ugur; Yildiz, Erdost; Li, Meng; Sitti, Metin
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Soft-robotic ciliated epidermis for reconfigurable coordinated fluid manipulation

Science Advances, v. 8, (34), August 2022, article number eabq2345
Ren, Ziyu; Zhang, Mingchao; Song, Shanyuan; Liu, Zemin; Hong, Chong; Wang, Tianlu; Dong, Xiaoguang; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin
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Wireless Miniature Magnetic Phase-Change Soft Actuators

Advanced Materials, v. 34, (40), October 2022, article number 2204185
Tang, Yichao; Li, Mingtong; Wang, Tianlu; Dong, Xiaoguang; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin
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2021 7

Effect of body stiffness distribution on larval fish-like efficient undulatory swimming

Science Advances, v. 7, (19), May 2021, article number eabf7364
Wang, Tianlu; Ren, Ziyu; Hu, Wenqi; Li, Mingtong; Sitti, Metin
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Liquid Crystal Elastomer-Based Magnetic Composite Films for Reconfigurable Shape-Morphing Soft Miniature Machines

Advanced Materials, v. 33, (8), February 2021, article number 2006191
Zhang, Jiachen; Guo, Yubing; Hu, Wenqi; Soon, Ren Hao; Davidson, Zoey S.; Sitti, Metin
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Magnetic soft micromachines made of linked microactuator networks

Science Advances, v. 7, (23), June 2021, article number eabe8436
Hu, Xinghao; Yasa, Immihan C.; Ren, Ziyu; Goudu, Sandhya R.; Ceylan, Hakan; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin
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Shape-programmable liquid crystal elastomer structures with arbitrary three-dimensional director fields and geometries

Nature Communications, v. 12, (1), October 2021, article number 5936
Guo, Yubing; Zhang, Jiachen; Hu, Wenqi; Khan, Muhammad Turab Ali; Sitti, Metin
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Soft-bodied adaptive multimodal locomotion strategies in fluid-filled confined spaces

Science Advances, v. 7, (27), June 2021, article number eabh2022
Ren, Ziyu; Zhang, Rongjing; Soon, Ren Hao; Liu, Zemin; Hu, Wenqi; Onck, Patrick R.; Sitti, Metin
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Voxelated three-dimensional miniature magnetic soft machines via multimaterial heterogeneous assembly

Science Robotics, v. 6, (53), April 2021, article number eabf0112
Zhang, Jiachen; Ren, Ziyu; Hu, Wenqi; Soon, Ren Hao; Yasa, Immihan Ceren; Liu, Zemin; Sitti, Metin
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Wirelessly Actuated Thermo- and Magneto-Responsive Soft Bimorph Materials with Programmable Shape-Morphing

Advanced Materials, v. 33, (30), July 2021, article number 2100336
Zhang, Jiachen; Guo, Yubing; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin
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2020 4

Biodegradable Untethered Magnetic Hydrogel Milli-Grippers

Advanced Functional Materials, v. 30, (50), December 2020, article number 2004975
Goudu, Sandhya Rani; Yasa, Immihan Ceren; Hu, Xinghao; Ceylan, Hakan; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin
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Bioinspired cilia arrays with programmable nonreciprocal motion and metachronal coordination

Science Advances, v. 6, (45), November 2020, article number eabc9323
Dong, Xiaoguang; Lum, Guo Zhan; Hu, Wenqi; Zhang, Rongjing; Ren, Ziyu; Onck, Patrick R.; Sitti, Metin
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Multifunctional magnetic soft composites: A review

Multifunctional Materials, v. 3, (4), December 2020, article number abcb0c
Wu, Shuai; Hu, Wenqi; Ze, Qiji; Sitti, Metin; Zhao, Ruike
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Ultrasound-Guided Wireless Tubular Robotic Anchoring System

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (3), July 2020, article number 9121662, p. 4859-4866
Wang, Tianlu; Hu, Wenqi; Ren, Ziyu; Sitti, Metin
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2019 3

Multi-functional soft-bodied jellyfish-like swimming

Nature Communications, v. 10, (1), July 2019, article number 2703
Ren, Ziyu; Hu, Wenqi; Dong, Xiaoguang; Sitti, Metin
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Translational prospects of untethered medical microrobots

Progress in Biomedical Engineering, v. 1, (1), July 2019, article number 012002
Ceylan, Hakan; Yasa, Immihan C.; Kilic, Ugur; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin
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A Magnetically-Actuated Untethered Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Milliswimmer

Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Cambridge, MA, USA : MIT Press Journals, 2019
Ren, Ziyu; Wang, Tianlu; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin
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2018 1

Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion

Nature, v. 554, (7690), January 2018, p. 81-85
Hu, Wenqi; Lum, Guo Zhan; Mastrangeli, Massimo; Sitti, Metin
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2017 1

Localized single-cell lysis and manipulation using optothermally-induced bubbles

Micromachines, v. 8, (4), April 2017, article number 121
Fan, Qihui; Hu, Wenqi; Ohta, Aaron T.
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2016 2

Shape-programmable magnetic soft matter

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 113, (41), September 2016, p. E6007-E6015
Lum, Guo Zhan; Ye, Zhou; Dong, Xiaoguang; Marvi, Hamid; Erin, Onder; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin
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Cell patterning in a hydrogel using optically induced dielectrophoresis

International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics, v. 2016-September, September 2016 , article number 7565869
Hu, Wenqi; Ishii, Kelly; Ohta, Aaron T.
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2015 2

Biomedical Applications of Untethered Mobile Milli/Microrobots

Proceedings of the IEEE, v. 103, (2), February 2015, article number 7067029, p. 205-224
Sitti, Metin; Ceylan, Hakan; Hu, Wenqi; Giltinan, Joshua; Turan, Mehmet; Yim, Sehyuk; Diller, Eric
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Efficient single-cell poration by microsecond laser pulses

Lab on a Chip, v. 15, (2), January 2015, p. 581-588
Fan, Qihui; Hu, Wenqi; Ohta, Aaron T.
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2014 4

Continuous Electrowetting of Non-toxic Liquid Metal for RF Applications

IEEE Access, v. 2, August 2014, article number 6881663, p. 874-882
Gough, Ryan C.; Morishita, Andy M.; Dang, Jonathan H.; Hu, Wenqi; Shiroma, Wayne A.; Ohta, Aaron T.
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Laser-induced microbubble poration of localized single cells

Lab on a Chip, v. 14, (9), May 2014, p. 1572-1578
Fan, Qihui; Hu, Wenqi; Ohta, Aaron T.
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Liquid-metal reconfigurable RF components and antennas

2014 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting, USNC-URSI NRSM 2014 / IEEE. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2014, article number 6927985
Dang, Jonathan H.; Morishita, Andy M.; Gough, Ryan C.; Hu, Wenqi; Ohta, Aaron T.; Shiroma, Wayne A.
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Molecular delivery and transfection by laser-induced oscillating microbubbles

9th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, IEEE-NEMS 2014 / IEEE. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2014, p. 302-305, article number 6908813
Fan, Qihui; Hu, Wenqi; Ohta, Aaron T.
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2013 4

An opto-thermocapillary cell micromanipulator

Lab on a Chip, v. 13, (12), May 2013, p. 2285-2291
Hu, Wenqi; Fan, Qihui; Ohta, Aaron T.
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A reconfigurable, liquid-metal-based low-pass filter with reversible tuning

2013 IEEE International Wireless Symposium, IWS 2013 / IEEE. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2013, article number 6616802
Tonaki, Wade G.; Hu, Wenqi; Ohta, Aaron T.; Shiroma, Wayne A.
Conference paper

Assembly of cell-laden microgels by an optically controlled bubble manipulator

17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2013, v. 2, October 2013, p. 997-999
Hu, Wenqi; Fan, Q.; Ohta, A.T.
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Bubble-driven light-absorbing hydrogel microrobot for the assembly of bio-objects

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS / IEEE. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2013, p. 5303-5306, article number 6610746
Hu, Wenqi; Fan, Qihui; Tonaki, Wade; Ohta, Aaron T.
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2012 7

Hydrogel microrobots actuated by optically generated vapour bubbles

Lab on a Chip, v. 12, (19), August 2012, p. 3821-3826
Hu, Wenqi; Ishii, Kelly S.; Fan, Qihui; Ohta, Aaron T.
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A liquid-metal reconfigurable double-stub tuner

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest / IEEE. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2012, article number 6259372
Lei, Bao Jun; Hu, Wenqi; Ohta, Aaron T.; Shiroma, Wayne A.
Conference paper

A liquid-metal tunable electromagnetic-bandgap microstrip filter

2012 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems, ICWITS 2012 / IEEE. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2012, article number 6417735
Ohta, Aaron T.; Guo, Shuyan; Lei, Bao Jun; Hu, Wenqi; Shiroma, Wayne A.
Conference paper

A tunable low-pass filter using a liquid-metal reconfigurable periodic defected ground structure

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest / IEEE. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2012, article number 6259765
Guo, Shuyan; Lei, Bao Jun; Hu, Wenqi; Shiroma, Wayne A.; Ohta, Aaron T.
Conference paper

An opto-thermocapillary cell manipulator

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2012, Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society, 2012, p. 1654-1656
Hu, Wenqi; Fan, Qihui; Ishii, Kelly S.; Ohta, Aaron T.
Conference paper

Cooperative micromanipulation using optically controlled bubble microrobots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation / IEEE. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2012, p. 3443-3448, article number 6225299
Ishii, Kelly S.; Hu, Wenqi; Ohta, Aaron T.
Conference paper

Micro-assembly using optically controlled bubble microrobots in saline solution

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation / IEEE. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2012, p. 733-738, article number 6225284
Hu, Wenqi; Ishii, Kelly S.; Ohta, Aaron T.
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2011 3

An optically controlled 3D cell culturing system

Advances in OptoElectronics, v. 2011, December 2011, article number 253989
Ishii, Kelly S.; Hu, Wenqi; Namekar, Swapnil A.; Ohta, Aaron T.
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Aqueous droplet manipulation by optically induced Marangoni circulation

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, v. 11, (3), September 2011, p. 307-316
Hu, Wenqi; Ohta, Aaron T.
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Micro-assembly using optically controlled bubbles

International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics / IEEE. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2011, p. 53-54, article number 6031019
Hu, Wenqi; Ishii, Kelly S.; Ohta, Aaron T.
Conference paper

UROP1000	Undergraduate Research Opportunities
UROP2100P	Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 2

MECH4710	Introduction to Robotics
UROP1100O	Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 1
UROP3100O	Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 3

MECH3610	Control Principles
MECH4900	Final Year Design Project
UROP2100N	Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 2

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Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2022 to December 2025 (As of 31 August 2025)

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