Jiawei Zhu

Jiawei Zhu was born in Jinan, China in 1996. He studied in School of Energy and Power Engineering during undergraduate at Beihang University, Beijing, with a research focus on micro-engine and mechatronics. He attended Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an exchange student in 2016, and worked as a research assistant at the Advanced Micro and Nanosystems Laboratory at University of Toronto for six months in 2018. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in June 2019, and was awarded national scholarship and outstanding graduate.

Jiawei started his master’s studies in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich in September 2019. During this period, he concentrated on robotics, systems and control, and finished his semester project at MSRL on the topic of motion control of Janus micromotors. Subsequently, he worked as an intern at the research center of Hitachi ABB Power Grids in Baden, Switzerland for six months, and contributed to the applications of machine learning to distribution grids. He completed his master thesis at MSRL on fetoscope positioning using CNNs and visual SLAM in November 2021.

In January 2022, Jiawei joined MSRL as a PhD student, and is currently working on bio-inspired soft microrobots for biomedical applications, and automation of CFM setup for microfluidic experiments.