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Jianmei Huang is pioneering the frontier of insect-scale robotics, creating some of the world’s smallest and most agile untethered machines. Her core research focuses on developing novel actuation systems that overcome the fundamental challenge of transforming limited onboard energy into powerful, controlled locomotion at the millimeter scale. Huang’s major contributions include the creation of a 5-mm-long, 9.4-mg crawling robot driven by self-excited electrostatic vibration (38 citations), and a remarkable 3.4-mm flea-sized robot that achieves both powerful jumping and fast crawling through a novel high-voltage pulsed actuator (22 citations). Most recently, she has demonstrated a millimeter-scale multilocomotion microrobot capable of controlled crawling and jumping (9 citations, 2024), pushing the boundaries of what is possible at this size scale. Her work on electrostatic self-excited resonators with pre-tension/pre-compression constraints for active rotation control further showcases her deep expertise in micro-actuator design. Huang’s achievements represent critical steps toward deploying insect-sized robots for search-and-rescue, environmental monitoring, and medical applications in confined spaces.