Magnetic Micro and Nanorobot Swarms: From Fundamentals to Applications

Li Zhang

Li Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering and a Professor by Courtesy in the Department of Surgery at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is also a director of the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - CUHK Joint Laboratory of Robotics and Intelligent Systems. Before he joined CUHK as an Assistant Professor in 2012, he worked in Prof. Bradley Nelson's group as a postdoc and then as a senior scientist and lecturer in the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland.

Dr. Zhang's main research interests include small-scale robotics and their applications for translational biomedicine. He has authored or co-authored over 300 publications. His research work on artificial bacterial flagella was indexed by the Guinness Book of World Records 2012 for the "Most Advanced Mini Robot for Medical Use." And his research work on magnetic slime robot at CUHK was selected as "Top 10 Innovation and Technology News in Hong Kong in 2022". Dr. Zhang won the Hong Kong Research Grants Committee (RGC) Early Career Award in 2013, CUHK Young Researcher Award 2017, United College Early Career Research Excellence Merit Award 2018, CUHK Research Excellence Award 2019-20, and RGC Research Fellow Award 2021/22. He has also won several awards from IEEE international conferences. Dr. Zhang is an Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering at CUHK and elected as a Fellow of IEEE (FIEEE), Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), and Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (FAAIA). And he was appointed by IEEE NTC as a Distinguished Lecturer in 2020 and 2021.

Shihao Yang

Shihao Yang is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree in Prof. Li Zhang's group in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2018 and 2020, respectively. His research interests include collective behaviors, biomedical applications, and fundamental mechanisms of micro-/nano-robots.

Qianqian Wang

Qianqian Wang is an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University (SEU), Nanjing, China. He received his Ph.D. degree at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2020. Before joining SEU, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at CUHK. He has published over 40 papers in internationally renowned journals, including Science Robotics, Science Advances, Nature Communications, ACS Nano, IEEE T-BME, IEEE T-ASE, IEEE T-MECH, and presented his work in IEEE ICRA, IROS, CASE .etc. His research focuses on the micro-/nano-robotics field, including collective behaviors of micro/nanorobots, medical imaging-guided delivery, micromanipulation, and dynamic self-assembly. He is also interested in integrating swarming micro/nanorobots with medical imaging systems for preclinical biomedical applications.

Dongdong Jin

Dongdong Jin is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees from Zhejiang University, and Ph. D. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2020. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in CUHK and joined Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen in 2022. Dr. Jin's research interests mainly focus on small-scale soft-matter robotics, including their fundamental mechanisms, fabrication and functionalization strategies, magnetic actuation and control, and biomedical applications. He has published over 40 papers, including Science Advances, Nature Communications, Nature Machine Intelligence, Accounts of Chemical Research, Advanced Materials, Materials Today, and ACS Nano. Several of his papers have been indexed as ESI highly cited papers, and have been highlighted in international press reports, such as C&EN, Chemistry World, and so on. He serves as a guest editor for Nanomaterials, and a reviewer for top journals and conferences, including ACS Nano, RA-L, and ICRA.

李張（Li Zhang）是香港中文大學（CUHK）機械與自動化工程系的教授，也是該校外科學系的兼職教授。他還是中國科學院深圳先進技術研究院（SIAT）-香港中文大學機器人與智能系統聯合實驗室的主任。在2012年加入香港中文大學之前，他曾在瑞士聯邦理工學院（ETH Zurich）機器人與智能系統研究所（IRIS）的布拉德利·納爾遜（Bradley Nelson）教授的團隊中擔任博士後研究員、高級科學家和講師。

張博士的主要研究興趣包括小尺度機器人及其在轉化生物醫學中的應用。他已經發表或合著了300多篇論文。他在人工細菌鞭毛方面的研究成果被列入2012年《吉尼斯世界紀錄》的“用於醫療用途的最先進微型機器人”。他在香港中文大學的磁性黏液機器人研究被選為“2022年香港十大創新與科技新聞”。張博士於2013年獲得香港研究資助局（RGC）早期職業獎，2017年獲得香港中文大學青年研究者獎，2018年獲得聯合書院早期職業研究卓越獎，2019-20年獲得香港中文大學研究卓越獎，2021/22年獲得RGC研究員獎。他還獲得了幾個IEEE國際會議的獎項。張博士是香港中文大學工程學院的傑出院士，並當選為IEEE（FIEEE）、皇家化學學會（FRSC）和亞太人工智能協會（FAAIA）的院士。他還於2020年和2021年被IEEE NTC任命為傑出講師。

楊世豪（Shihao Yang）目前正在香港中文大學機械與自動化工程系李張教授的研究小組攻讀博士學位。他於2018年和2020年分別在中國哈爾濱工業大學獲得學士和碩士學位。他的研究興趣包括集體行為、生物醫學應用和微/納米機器人的基本機制。

王倩倩（Qianqian Wang）是中國東南大學機械工程學院的副教授。她於2020年在香港中文大學獲得博士學位。加入東南大學之前，她曾在香港中文大學機械與自動化工程系擔任博士後研究員。她在國際知名期刊上發表了40多篇論文，包括《科學機器人學》、《科學進展》、《自然通訊》、《ACS納米》、《IEEE T-BME》、《IEEE T-ASE》、《IEEE T-MECH》等，並在IEEE ICRA、IROS、CASE等會議上發表了她的研究成果。她的研究重點是微/納米機器人領域，包括微/納米機器人的集體行為、醫學影像引導的輸送、微操作和動態自組裝。她還對將群體微/納米機器人與醫學影像系統相結合，用於臨床前生物醫學應用感興趣。

金東東（Dongdong Jin）目前是哈爾濱工業大學深圳材料科學與工程學院的副教授。他於2020年在浙江大學獲得學士和碩士學位，並於2020年在香港中文大學獲得博士學位。之後，他在香港中文大學擔任博士後研究員，並於2022年加入哈爾濱工業大學深圳。金博士的研究興趣主要集中在小尺度軟物質機器人，包括其基本機制、製造和功能化策略、磁性驅動和控制，以及生物醫學應用。他已發表了40多篇論文，包括《科學進展》、《自然通訊》、《自然機器智能》、《化學研究報告》、《先進材料》、《材料》等。