Dr. Lingbo Cheng joined the School of Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in 2024.

Her research focuses on control and automation for medical robots, with a special interest in haptics and teleoperation control, non-linear control, medical imaging, robot vision, and multi-robot systems.

Before joining the University of Newcastle, Dr. Cheng was a Distinguished Associate Researcher (Tenure Track Assistant Professor) at the College of Control Engineering and Science of Zhejiang University, China from 2020 to 2021, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada from 2019 to 2020.

Dr. Cheng received her Doctoral degree in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada in 2019 with a thesis titled “Control of Teleoperation Systems for Beating-Heart Surgery”, and B.Eng and M.Eng degrees in Vehicle Engineering and Safety Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2012 and 2014 respectively.