Intelligent and Responsible Manufacturing Systems(IRMS) Lab
Research Vision: Towards intelligent and responsible manufacturing systems (IRMS) that empower the delivery of on-demand products and services with enhanced cost-efficiency, responsiveness, and resilience, while advancing sustainability and well-being.
Research
Design, build and optimize intelligent manufacturing systems, aiming to address global manufacturing challenges in growing customization, digitalization, as well as social and environmental responsibility. The IRMS lab will focus on 1) intelligent and sustainable cyber-physical manufacturing systems, 2) efficient and safe human-robot collaborative manufacturing, and 3) fusion of knowledge and data for optimization of manufacturing operations.
News
Lab News-February 2025: Dengcheng Tang joined our lab as PhD student.
New Publication-January 2025: Dr. Daqiang Guo (corresponding author), in collaboration with researchers from the University of Cambridge, published the latest research work titled “Digital transformation of electronic patient information leaflets (ePIL): the case of multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers” on Int. J. Prod. Res..
Lab News-January 2025: Xingke Xia joined our lab as a Research Assistant.
Conference & Award-December 2024: Juntao Li received the 优秀报告奖 for his presentation titled “A Multimodal Large Model for Accurate Human Robot Collaborative Manufacturing” at the 2024世界智能制造大会人本智造专题活动暨第二届人本智造学术会议.
Lab News-September 2024: Zimo Zhang, Juntao Li joined our lab as PhD students.
Conference & Award-August 2024: Dr. Daqiang Guo received the Best Conference Paper Award-Second Prize at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Automation in Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics (iCaMaL2024), and served as Session Chair for the special session on “Digital Twin in Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing”.
Lab News-August 2024: Junyan Xiong joined our lab as a Research Assistant.
New Publication-July 2024: Dr. Daqiang Guo (first author), in collaboration with researchers from the University of Cambridge published the latest research work titled “The role of digital twins in lean supply chain management: review and research directions” on Int. J. Prod. Res..
New Publication-July 2024: Dr. Daqiang Guo (first author), in collaboration with researchers from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Polytechnic University, Jinan University, The University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, published the latest research work titled “The marriage of operations research and reinforcement learning: Integration of NEH into Q-learning algorithm for the permutation flowshop scheduling problem” on Expert Syst. Appl..
Lab News-June 2024: Qingyang Wang joined our lab as a Research Assistant.
Lab News-June 2024: Dr. Daqiang Guo joined HKUST(GZ) as an Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator of the Intelligent and Responsible Manufacturing Systems (IRMS) Lab.
Join us
The IRMS lab has openings for PhD/Mphil students, postdocs, research assistants, and visiting students in 2025/2026. Highly self-motivated students with backgrounds in manufacturing automation and robotics, electrical and electronic engineering, computer science, production and operations management, and other related fields are welcome to reach out.
Please contact Prof. Daqiang Guo for any inquiries.
Email: daqiangguo@hkust-gz.edu.cn
Location: Room 608, Building W2, No.1 Du Xue Rd, Nansha District, Guangzhou, China
Phone: 020-88335996