Gilgueng Hwang
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, The University of Tokyo, Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences, 3S Photonics (France), Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, Induk University, Cambridge CMOS Sensors (United Kingdom)
Papers
20
Total Citations
295
H-Index
10
About
Gilgueng Hwang is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of microrobotics, microfluidics, and tele-micromanipulation, whose work has fundamentally advanced the field of mobile microscale systems. His most celebrated contribution, "On-chip Microfluidic Multimodal Swimmer toward 3D Navigation" (2016, 77 citations), demonstrated how microrobots can navigate complex fluidic environments — a critical step toward real-world applications in targeted drug delivery, biopsy, and microassembly. Hwang's development of the MagPieR microrobot, a magnetically and piezoelectrically driven platform that won the "2mm dash" at the NIST IEEE Mobile Microrobotics Challenge at ICRA 2010, cemented his reputation as an innovator in wireless microrobot design. His research on helical microrobots revealed that wall-induced forces within microchannels can be exploited to simplify three-dimensional control — an elegant and practically significant insight. Beyond locomotion, Hwang has made meaningful contributions to nanoscale mechanical characterization using tuning fork-based nanorobotic systems, and to human-robot cooperative teleoperation, developing sophisticated single-master multi-slave tele-micromanipulation frameworks with haptic feedback. Collectively, his body of work has accumulated hundreds of citations, reflecting broad influence across robotics, MEMS, and biomedical engineering communities.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1On-chip Microfluidic Multimodal Swimmer toward 3D Navigation77 citations · 2016
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- 4Development of a single-master multi-slave tele-micromanipulation system23 citations · 2007
- 5The Rotation of Microrobot Simplifies 3D Control Inside Microchannels21 citations · 2018
- 6Helical microrobot for force sensing inside microfluidic chip15 citations · 2017
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- 8Development of a Human-Robot-Shared Controlled Teletweezing System13 citations · 2007
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