{"id":2657,"date":"2013-03-30T11:25:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T11:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nus.edu.sg\/biomm\/?page_id=398"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:50:35","slug":"principal-investigator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/principal-investigator\/","title":{"rendered":"Principal Investigator"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Hongliang REN,&nbsp;Ph. D.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dr-Ren-Hongliang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3031\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dr-Ren-Hongliang.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dr-Ren-Hongliang.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dr-Ren-Hongliang-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Professor, Electronic Engineering Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Short Biography<\/h3>\n<p>Hongliang Ren received his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering (Specialized in Biomedical Engineering) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2008. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science &amp; Engineering (T-ASE) and Medical &amp; Biological Engineering &amp; Computing (MBEC). He has navigated his academic journey through the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Johns Hopkins University, Children\u2019s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Children\u2019s National Medical Center, United States, and the National University of Singapore. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and held an adjunct professor position at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. His areas of interest include biorobotics, intelligent control, medical mechatronics, soft continuum robots, soft sensors, and multisensory learning in medical robotics. He is the recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Category A), CUHK Young Researcher Award, NUS Young Investigator Award and Engineering Young Researcher Award, IAMBE Early Career Award 2018, Interstellar Early Career Investigator Award 2018, ICBHI Young Investigator Award 2019, and Health Longevity Catalyst Award 2022 by NAM &amp; RGC.<\/p>\n<h3>Contact and Web\/CV<\/h3>\n<p>Email: hren(at)cuhk.edu.hk<br \/>\nWeb:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/\">http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/<\/a><br \/>\nCV:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/cv\/\">http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/cv\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Research Interests <\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Robotic and Sensing in Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Embodied AI<\/li>\n<li>Biomedical Mechatronics<\/li>\n<li>Computer-Integrated Surgery<\/li>\n<li>Wireless Biomedical Sensor Network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong> Teaching Areas<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Robotics, Perception, Sensors, Signal Processing, Probability, Engineering Design, Surgical Robotics<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Affiliations <\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Director, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laboratory of Medical Mechatronics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Past Affiliated Labs <\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/robotics.tch.harvard.edu\">Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering Lab<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hms.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard Medical School<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenshospital.org\">Children&#8217;s Hospital Boston<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard University<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisst.org\/\">Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsr.jhu.edu\/\">Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lcsr.jhu.edu\/User:Hlren\">[More]<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/smarts.lcsr.jhu.edu\/\"> SMARTS Lab <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/smarts.lcsr.jhu.edu\/dokuwiki\/doku.php?id=people\"> [More]<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bme.jhu.edu\/\">Department of Biomedical Engineering <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bme.jhu.edu\/hlren\">[More]<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/\">Department of Computer Science <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineering.jhu.edu\/\">Whiting School of Engineering<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhu.edu\/\">The Johns Hopkins University<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensnational.org\/sheikhzayedsurgicalinstitute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bioengineering Initiative, Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children\u2019s National Medical Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alpha.ieor.berkeley.edu\/alumni.html\">Automation Lab<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/berkeley.edu\/\">University of California at Berkeley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ee.cuhk.edu.hk\/~qhmeng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medical Robotics Lab<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ee.cuhk.edu.hk\/\">Electronic Engineering Department<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuhk.edu.hk\/\">The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hongliang REN,&nbsp;Ph. D. Professor, Electronic Engineering Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong &nbsp; Short Biography Hongliang Ren received his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering (Specialized in Biomedical Engineering) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2008. 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