Zhun Fan
Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering
Shantou University, China
Senior Member, IEEE
zhun_fan@126.com

Projects and Grants

  • 2015-2018, presided over the Central Organization Department State 1,000 young talent project plans, project funds 1,000,000.
  • 2014-2017, Guangdong Province, presided over the "sail plan" talents project, project funds 1,000,000.
  • 2014-2017, presided over "Intelligent design framework and application of mechatronic systems" Guangdong Provincial Department of education project, project funds 400,000.
  • 2013-2015, presided over the provincial CNC generation project "Eastern NC generation of innovative applications integrated service platform", project number: 2013B011304002, funds 5 million, of which the provincial special funds 2 million.
  • 2012-2015, presided over the project "Hybrid electromechanical system controller and controlled object parallel evolutionary design and research", the project by the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation funding, funding of 600,000 yuan.
  • 2011-2012, as co-Principle Investigator, "Evolutionary design of bio-inspired fish-type flying robot actuated by artificial muscles,"seeding fund of NSF Sponsored BEACON Center for Study of Evolution in Action, (National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement No. DBI-0939454,$98,040).
  • 2010-2011, Hans Christian Oersted Postdoctoral Fund Dr. Yuan Li (Project no. 95-4248-81082, £ 500,000).
  • 2009, Alectia Fond Award Recipient for the research work in the healthcare sector (with 12 other people, DKK 250,000).
  • 2009, Otto Mønsted Fond for Guest Professor of DTU for three months (Project no. 95-4248-81070, 195,000 Danish Kroner).
  • 2008-2011 as Principle Investigator and main supervisor, industrial PhD research project funded by FORCE Technology Inc, and Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation, "On key technical issues to commercialize hospital robotic transportation systems", (FI's sagsnr. 07-023362, DTU Project no. 95-4248-80817, 2.064 million Danish Kroner).
  • 2008-2011 as Principle Investigator and main supervisor, industrial PhD research project funded by FORCE Technology Inc, and Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation, "Direct vision based molten pool feature extraction in automated arc welding", (FI's sagsnr. 08-032306, DTU Project no. 95-4248-80924, 2.054 million Danish Kroner).
  • 2007-2010 as Principal Investigator and main supervisor, international PhD research project, funded by Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation, "Automated design of advanced mechatronic systems",(FI's sagsnr. 645-06-0186, DTU Project no. 95-4248-80844, 1.64 Million Danish Kroner).
  • 2007 Otto Mønsted Fond for a visiting professorship of DTU for three months. (Project no. 95-4248-80846, 180,000 Danish kroner).
  • 2004–2006, participator, educational project, "Asia link – promoting and assisting engineering design education in China". The project is an EU-funded project (ASI/B7-301/98/679-09), my major responsibility includes designing and delivering one training course on Mechatronics in China.
  • 2000–2004, participator, NSF project,"Automated design of mechatronic systems using bond graphs and genetic programming"(National Science Foundation No. DMI 0084934, $3080,000).