Guanqiao Shan Editor

Changsheng Dai is currently a professor at Dalian University of Technology. His research focuses on robotic cell manipulation and medical image analysis. Dr. Dai has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers in premium journals and international conference proceedings such as Nature Reviews Urology, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and has received the Best Paper Award in Automation at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Connaught International Scholarship, William Dunbar Memorial Scholarship in Mechanical Engineering, and Weber and Mariano Scholarship in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He served as a peer reviewer for several journals such as IEEE Transactions on Robotics and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Guanqiao Shan is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. His research interests lie in robotic cell biopsy and cell ion channels. He received the First Prize for Technical Achievement at 2021 Scientific Congress of American Society of Reproductive Medicine. Yu Sun is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, with joint appointments in the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto (UofT), in Canada. He is a Tier I Canada Research Chair, and the founding Director of the UofT Robotics Institute. His Advanced Micro and Nanosystems Laboratory specializes in developing innovative technologies and instruments for manipulating and characterizing cells, molecules, and nanomaterials. Prof. Sun was elected Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), NAI (US National Academy of Inventors), AIMBE (American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering), CAE (Canadian Academy of Engineering), and RSC (Royal Society of Canada) for his work on micro-nano devices and robotic systems.