Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Sc. ETH Zurich 2023, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Contact Information

• Office Holmes Hall 202A
• Phone (808) 956-0807
• E-mail tianluw@hawaii.edu
• Research Website:  https://sites.google.com/view/uhm-sail

Research Interests

• Soft robotics
• Underwater robotics
• Bioinspiration
• Soft medical devices and systems
• Miniature robotics
• Mechanics
• Soft actuators (magnetic, electrohydraulic)
• Soft materials

Selected Publications

1.  Wang, T., Joo, H.J., Song, S., Hu, W., Keplinger, C. and Sitti, M., 2023. A versatile jellyfish-
   like robotic platform for effective underwater propulsion and manipulation. Science
   Advances, 9(15), p.eadg0292.
2. Wang, T., Ugurlu, H., Yan, Y., Li, M., Li, M., Wild, A.M., Yildiz, E., Schneider, M., Sheehan,
   D., Hu, W. and Sitti, M., 2022. Adaptive wireless millirobotic locomotion into distal
   vasculature. Nature Communications, 13(1), p.4465.
3.  Wang, T., Ren, Z., Hu, W., Li, M. and Sitti, M., 2021. Effect of body stiffness distribution
   on larval fish–like efficient undulatory swimming. Science Advances, 7(19), p.eabf7364.
4. Wang, T., Hu, W., Ren, Z. and Sitti, M., 2020. Ultrasound-guided wireless tubular robotic
   anchoring system. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(3), pp.4859-4866.
5. Yan, Y.*, Wang, T.*, Zhang, R., Liu, Y., Hu, W. and Sitti, M., 2023. Magnetically assisted
   soft milli-tools for occluded lumen morphology detection. Science Advances, 9(33),
   p.eadi3979. (* equally contributing first authors)
6. Ren, Z.*, Wang, T.*, Hu, W. and Sitti, M., 2019, June. A Magnetically-Actuated
   Untethered Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Milliswimmer. In Robotics: Science and Systems (pp.
   22-26).

Full list of publications available:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sQ_hknYAAAAJ&hl=en

Courses Offered

• ME213 Introduction to Engineering Design