RI-IWEAR Research Seminar V

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 CUHK–SIAT Joint Laboratory of Robotics and Intelligent Systems. 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, including Science Robotics and Nature Machine Intelligence. His research work on magnetic slimebot was selected as “Top 10 Innovation and Technology News in Hong Kong in 2022”. He 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 (RFS) Award 2021/22. 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).

Shiming Zhang is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), leading the wearable, intelligent, and soft electronics (WISE) research group. Before joining HKU, he spent three years at The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a postdoctoral scholar, leading the medical wearables research direction in the Center of Minimally Invasive Therapeutics at UCLA. He obtained his Ph.D. (Best Thesis Awardee) from Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal, Canada, and BS and MS (Highest Honor) from Jilin University, China. He is known for his contributions in designing and manufacturing of tissue-like organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs). He conceptulaized and developed the world's first OECTs-based stretchable microelectrode arrays. His lab developed and commercialized the “PERfECT” readout system, which is so far the smallest (coin-sized) and lightest (0.4 grams) analytical control unit for wireless and wearable characterizations of low-voltage transistors.