• Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Minghui Zheng

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley - 2017
  • M.S., Control Science and Engineering, Beihang University - 2011
  • B.S., Engineering Mechanics, Beihang University - 2008

Research Interests

    • Human-robot collaboration
    • Robotic motion planning
    • Task allocation and sequence planning
    • Collaborative disassembly, recycling, and remanufacturing
    • Learning-based control for heterogenous robots
    • Cable-driven robotic hand design and manipulation
    • Collaborative estimation using connected vehicles

Awards & Honors

  • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2021
  • SEAS Early Career Researcher of the Year, University at Buffalo (UB), 2021
  • Exceptional Scholar: Young Investigator Award, University at Buffalo, 2023

Selected Publications

  • Lee, Meng-Lun, Xiao Liang, Minghui Zheng. et. al., "A review of prospects and opportunities in disassembly with human–robot Collaboration." Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering 146, no. 2 (2024).
  • Eltouny, Kareem A., Wansong Liu, Minghui Zheng, et. al., "De-tgn: Uncertainty-aware human motion forecasting using deep ensembles." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2024).
  • Liu, Wansong, Xiao Liang, and Minghui Zheng. "Task-constrained motion planning considering uncertainty-informed human motion prediction for human–robot collaborative disassembly." IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2023).
  • Lee, Meng-Lun, Sara Behdad, Minghui Zheng, et. al., "Task allocation and planning for product disassembly with human–robot collaboration." Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing 76 (2022): 102306.
  • Lee, Meng-Lun, Wansong Liu, Minghui Zheng, et. al., "Robot-assisted disassembly sequence planning with real-time human motion prediction." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 53, no. 1 (2022): 438-450.