With his recognized record of accomplishments, he was directly selected to join the School of Engineering-Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Cork (UCC) in November 2011, to take a permanent full-time faculty position: Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering. He was firstly tenured at the end of 2014, and was then promoted across the merit bar in October 2017 in an accelerated way due to his performance commended by the Lecturer Promotion & Establishment Board. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer at UCC in July 2018 (as the youngest senior lecturer in the school). He founded and is leading the CoMAR research group at UCC. His current research interests focus on design of compliant mechanisms and robotics and their applications in precision engineering, energy harvesting and biomedical devices. His research works were indicated by 2 filed patents (1 EU and 1 UK), 140 peer-reviewed publications and more than 20 invited talks (3 keynote/plenary), and by successfully securing research grants from Ireland, EU and China. He has supervised/co-supervised 2 PhD students to completion, is supervising 7 PhD students (6 as the main supervisor and 1 as the co-supervisor)