About us

Dr. Yao Guo leads the Perception, Cognition, and Behavior (PCB) group at Institute of Medical Robotics (IMR), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU).

Dr. Guo received his B.S. degree in automation and M.S. degree in communication and information system from Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. degree in robotic vision from the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong in 2018. His postdoctoral training was at the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College London, London, UK from 2018 to 2020. He was the tenure-track Assistant Professor with the Institute of Medical Robotics, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China from 2020 to 2023. Since 2024, he has been the tenure-track Associate Professor.

Dr. Guo engages in frontier theoretical research in areas such as human behavior and cognition analysis, robot vision, and human-robot interaction, while also focuses on the development of intelligent diagnosis and assessment algorithms for neurological diseases and the development of implantable surgical robotic systems for flexible brain-computer interfaces. He was selected for IEEE Senior Member (2026), Top 2% Scientists in Industrial Engineering and Automation (2025), the Shanghai Oriental Talent Program Top-notch Project (2025), Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program (2022), IEEE ICRA 2024 New Generation Star Project (2024), and awarded the Second Prize of the Shanghai Rehabilitation Science and Technology Award (2025) and the Second Prize of the Maternal and Child Health Science and Technology Award (2025). In recent five years (2021-2026), he has published over 50 papers in internationally renowned journals and top conferences in the field of medical robotics, including 30 as first author or corresponding author.

Perception, Cognition, and Behavior (PCB) group is one of fundamental research centers of IMR@SJTU. IMR-PCB aims to endow robots with human-like intelligence. However, the cognitive and replicative capabilities of robots and artificial intelligence are often underestimated. Perception and cognition are essential components of both teleoperated and autonomous robots, enabling attention-based control, reactive behaviors, situational awareness, and seamless human-robot interaction. By leveraging the latest advances in computational and experimental neuroscience, IMR-PCB focuses on the fundamental principles of brain function and their practical applications in human-machine symbiotic systems.

News (last three years)

• 2026.06 Our paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing!
• 2026.06 Our paper was accepted by MICCAI 2026!
• 2026.06 Yunfei Luan and Yuxuan Liu presented their papers (2 in total) in ICRA 2026@Vienna!
• 2026.05 Our paper was accepted by IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics!
• 2026.05 Our paper was selected as the finalists of IEEE ICRA 2026 Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics!
• 2026.03 Our paper was accepted by Pattern Recognition!
• 2026.02 Two papers were accepted by ICRA 2026!
• 2026.01 Our Cyborg and Bionic Systems paper was selected as Cover Article and the Top 10 papers in 2025!
• 2025.10 Yating Luo,Yuxuan Liu, Xinyao Zhou, Zhenye Xu presented their papers (4 in total) in IROS 2025@Hangzhou!
• 2025.09 Our paper was accepted by Cyborg and Bionic Systems!
• 2025.07 Our paper was awaded the CGIP 2025 Best Oral Presentation!
• 2025.06 Our collaboration pape was accepted by Frontiers in Robotics and AI!
• 2025.06 Our paper was accepted by IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics!
• 2025.06 Four papers were accepted by IEEE IROS 2025!
• 2025.06 Our paper was accepted by Medical Image Analysis!
• 2025.06 Our collaboration paper was accepted by Matter!
• 2025.06 Our collaboration paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems!
• 2024.12 Our paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics!
• 2024.11 Our paper collaborated with Shanghai Children Hospital was accepted by JMIR mHealth and uHealth!
• 2024.10 One paper was accepted by UbiComp 2024!
• 2024.09 We showcased NeuroDoc AI in CIFTIS 2024@Beijing, which has been widely reported by the People’s Daily and other media!
• 2024.09 Our paper was accepted by Engineering!
• 2024.06 Yunfei Luan was awarded the Outstanding Bachelor’s Thesis@SJTU (Top 1%)!
• 2024.06 Our paper was selected as the finalists of IEEE ICMA 2024 Best Paper Award!
• 2024.06 We showcased NeuroDoc AI in CSA&TISC 2024@Beijing!
• 2024.05 Jianxin Yang, Yujian An, Yating Luo, Yuxuan Liu presented their papers (3 in total) in ICRA 2024@Yokohama!
• 2024.04 Our paper was accepted by Photoacoustics!
• 2024.01 Three papers were accepted by IEEE ICRA 2024!
• 2024.01 Our paper was accepted by IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics!

Selected Publications

2026

[53] Musen Zhang, Yuxuan Liu, Yunfei Luan, Jinkai Li, Yao Guo*, “Towards Robust Egocentric Object Tracking: A Plug-and-Play Trajectory-Aware Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Accepted, DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2026.3708372, 2026. [Paper] (*Corresponding author)

[52] Yating Luo, Yuxuan Liu, Yunfei Luan, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “A Hierarchical Learning Framework for Micro-Electrode Manipulation under Microscopic Vision”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), Accepted, DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2026.3696526, 2026. [Paper] (*Co-corresponding author)

[51] Xinyao Zhou, Yuxuan Liu, Yating Luo, Yunfei Luan, Guang-Zhong Yang, Yao Guo*, “Wrist Camera Pose-Guided Multi-View Fusion for Occlusion Reconstruction in Robot-Assisted Microsurgical Anastomosis”, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Strasbourg, France, Accepted, 2026. (*Corresponding author)

[50] Yunfei Luan, Yuxuan Liu, Yuyang Zhuge, Yating Luo, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “One-Shot Autofocus Via User-Adaptive Gaze Control for Robot-Assisted Microsurgery”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Vienna, Austria, Accepted, 2026. (*Co-corresponding author, Finalists of Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics)

[49] Yuxuan Liu, Yuyang Zhuge, Xinyao Zhou, Yating Luo, Yunfei Luan, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Cross-View Exocentric and Egocentric Fusion for Robust Microsurgical Anastomosis Understanding”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Vienna, Austria, Accepted, 2026. (*Co-corresponding author)

[48] Yuxuan Liu, Xinyao Zhou, Yating Luo, Yunfei Luan, Zhennan Xiao, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Simultaneous Surgical Stereo Depth and Motion Estimation via Brightness-Aware Self-Supervised Learning”, Pattern Recognition (PR), vol. 179, pp. 113510, 2026. [Paper] (*Co-corresponding author)

[47] Yunfei Luan, Yating Luo, Yuxuan Liu, Musen Zhang, Yujian An, Jianxin Yang, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Autofocusing with Three-Dimensional Tracking for Robot-Assisted Microsurgery”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 220-231, 2026. [Paper][Code] (*Co-corresponding author)

2025

[46] Bingze He, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Integrated Piezoelectric Vibration and In-Situ Force Sensing for Low-Trauma Tissue Penetration”, Cyborg and Bionic Systems (CBS), vol. 6, pp. 4017, 2025. [Paper] (*Co-corresponding author, Cover Article)

[45] Yuxuan Liu, Jiasheng Zhou, Yating Luo, Sung-Liang Chen, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “FPM-R2Net: Fused Photoacoustic and Operating Microscopic Imaging with Cross-modality Representation and Registration Network”, Medical Image Analysis (MEDIA), vol. 105, pp. 103698, 2025. [Paper][Code] (*Co-corresponding author)

[44] Jianxin Yang, Yuxuan Liu, Jinkai Li, Xiao Gu, Guang-Zhong Yang, Yao Guo*, “PoseSDF++: Point Cloud-Based 3-D Human Pose Estimation via Implicit Neural Representation”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 2689-2698, 2025. [Paper] (*Corresponding author)

[43] Yujian An, Bingze He, Zhuochen Ma, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Microassembly: A Review on Fundamentals, Applications and Recent Developments”, Engineering, vol. 48, pp. 323-346, 2025. [Paper] (*Co-corresponding author)

[42] Yuxuan Liu, Yating Luo, Yunfei Luan, Xinyao Zhou, Jianxin Yang, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Towards Accurate Brain Electrode Implantation via Cross-modality Fusion of White-light and Photoacoustic Microscopy”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hangzhou, China, 2025, pp. 7726-7732. [Paper] (*Co-corresponding author)

[41] Xinyao Zhoui#, Yuxuan Liui#, Musen Zhang, Jinkai Li, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Deep Coarse-to-Fine Networks for Robust Segmentation and Pose Estimation of Surgical Suturing Threads”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hangzhou, China, 2025, pp. 520-526. [Paper] (*Co-corresponding author)

[40] Yiming Zhai#, Jingsong Liu#, Yating Luo*, Ziwei Wang, Yao Guo*, “Adaptive Motion Scaling in Teleoperated Robotic Surgery based on Human Intention and Attention”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hangzhou, China, 2025, pp. 15489-15495. [Paper] (*Co-corresponding author)

[39] Tianshu Zhao#, Zhenye Xu#, Pu Wang*, Yao Guo*, “Hybrid Learning-based Balance Function Assessment of Stroke Patients with a Single Ear-Worn IMU”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hangzhou, China, 2025, pp. 16373-16378. [Paper] (*Co-corresponding author)

2024

[38] Zhongling Liu†, Jinkai Li†, Yuanyuan Zhang, Dan Wu, Yanyan Huo, Jianxin Yang, Musen Zhang, Chuanfei Dong, Luhui Jiang, Ruohan Sun, Ruoyin Zhou, Fei Li, Xiaodan Yu, Daqian Zhu, Yao Guo*, and Jinjin Chen*, “Auxiliary Diagnosis of Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: An Eye-Tracking Study with Novel Digital Biomarkers”, JMIR mHealth and uHealth, vol. 12, pp. e58927, 2024. [Paper] (*Co-corresponding author)

[37] Yujian An, Jianxin Yang, Bingze He, Yuxuan Liu, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “A Microscopic Vision-Based Robotic System For Floating Electrode Assembly”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 3810-3820, 2024. [Paper] (*Co-corresponding author)

[36] Yuxuan Liu, Jiasheng Zhou, Yating Luo, Jinkai Li, Sung-Liang Chen, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “UPAMNet: A unified network with deep knowledge priors for photoacoustic microscopy”, Photoacoustics, vol. 38, pp. 100608, 2024. [Paper][Code] (*Co-corresponding author)

[35] Zhenye Xu, Yao Guo*, “GCCRR: A Short Sequence Gait Cycle Segmentation Method Based on Ear-Worn IMU”, ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Austrilia, 2024, pp. 650-654. [Paper] (*Corresponding author)

[34] Bingze He, Zhiang Zhang, Jianxin Yang, Yujian An, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Magnetically Actuated Floating Millirobot Platform for Streamlined Flexible Neural Electrode Manipulation”, IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), Tianjin, China, 2024, pp. 311-316. [Paper] (*Co-corresponding author, Finalists of Best Conference Paper Award)

[33] Yujian An, Jianxin Yang, Jinkai Li, Bingze He, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Skill Learning in Robot-Assisted Micro-Manipulation Through Human Demonstrations with Attention Guidance”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohoma, Japan, 2024, pp. 15601-15607. [Paper] (*Co-corresponding author)

[32] Yating Luo, Yuxuan Liu, Jiasheng Zhou, Sung-Liang Chen, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Fast Photoacoustic Microscopy with Robot Controlled Microtrajectory Optimization”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohoma, Japan, 2024, pp. 17750-17756. [Paper] (*Co-corresponding author)

[31] Yunfei Luan†, Muhang He†, Yudong Tian, Chengjie Lin, Yunhan Fang, Zihao Zhao, Jianxin Yang*, Yao Guo*, “Intelligent Disinfection Robot with High-Touch Surface Detection and Dynamic Pedestrian Avoidance”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohoma, Japan, 2024, pp. 3595-3601. [Paper] (*Co-corresponding author)

2023

[30] Yuxuan Liu, Jianxin Yang, Xiao Gu, Yijun Chen, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “EgoFish3D: Egocentric 3D Pose Estimation from a Fisheye Camera via Self-Supervised Learning”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), vol. 25, pp. 8880-8891, 2023. [Paper][Dataset] (*Co-corresponding author)

[29] Frank Lo, Yao Guo*, Yingnan Sun, Jianing Qiu, Benny Lo, “An Intelligent Vision-Based Nutritional Assessment Method for Handheld Food Items”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), vol. 25, pp. 5840 - 5851, 2023. [Paper] (*Corresponding author)

[28] Jinkai Li, Jianxin Yang, Yuxuan Liu, ZHEN LI, Guang-Zhong Yang, Yao Guo*, “EasyGaze3D: Towards Effective and Flexible 3D Gaze Estimation from a Single RGB Camera”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, USA, 2023, pp. 6537-6543. [Paper][Code] (*Corresponding author, Finalists of Best Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics)

[27] Yuxuan Liu, Jianxin Yang, Xiao Gu, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “EgoHMR: Egocentric Human Mesh Recovery via Hierarchical Latent Diffusion Model”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, 2023, pp. 9807-9813. [Paper][Code]. (*Co-corresponding author)

2022

[26] Xiao Gu, Yao Guo, Zeju Li, Jianing Qiu, Qi Dou, Yuxuan Liu, Benny Lo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Tackling Long-Tailed Category Distribution Under Domain Shifts”, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Isarel, 2022, pp. 727-743. [Paper][Code].

[25] Yuxuan Liu, Jianxin Yang, Xiao Gu, Yao Guo*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Ego+X: An Egocentric Vision System for Global 3D Human Pose Estimation and Social Interaction Characterization”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 2022, pp. 5271-5277. [Paper][Code]. (*Co-corresponding author)

[24] Jianxin Yang, Yuxuan Liu, Xiao Gu, Guang-Zhong Yang, Yao Guo*, “PoseSDF: Simultaneous 3D Human Shape Reconstruction and Gait Pose Estimation Using Signed Distance Functions”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, USA, 2022, pp. 1297-1303. [Paper] (*Corresponding author)

[23] Yao Guo, Weidong Chen, Jie Zhao, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Medical Robotics: Opportunities in China”, Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems (ARCRAS), vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 361-383, 2022. [Paper]

[22] Yao Guo, Jianxin Yang, Yuxuan Liu, Xun Chen*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Detection and Assessment of Parkinson’s Disease based on Gait Analysis: A Survey”, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, vol. 14, pp. 916971, 2022. [Paper]

[21] Yao Guo, Daniel Freer, Fani Deligianni, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Eye-tracking for Performance Evaluation and Workload Estimation in Space Telerobotic Training”, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (THMS), vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 1-11, 2022. [Paper]

[20] Xiao Gu, Yao Guo, Guang-Zhong Yang*, Benny Lo*, “Cross-Domain Self-Supervised Complete Geometric Representation Learning for Real-Scanned Point Cloud Based Pathological Gait Analysis”, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 1034-1044, 2022. [Paper]

[19] Chengxi Zhong, Yuyu Jia, David C. Jeong, Yao Guo*, Song Liu*, “AcousNet: A Deep Learning based Approach to Dynamic 3D Holographic Acoustic Field Generation from Phased Transducer Array”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 666-673, 2022. [Paper][Dataset] (*Co-corresponding author)

[18] Zhihao Yuan†, Xu Yan†, Yinghong Liao, Yao Guo, Guanbin Li, Zhen Li*, Shuguang Cui , “X-Trans2Cap: Cross-Modal Knowledge Transfer using Transformer for 3D Dense Captioning”, IEEE/CVF Conference of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New Orleans, USA, 2022, pp. 8563-8573. [Paper]

2021

[17] Yao Guo, Xiao Gu, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “MCDCD: Multi-Source Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Abnormal Human Gait Detection”, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), vol. 25, no. 10, pp. 4017-4028, 2021. [Paper]

[16] Frank Po Wen Lo, Yao Guo*, Yingnan Sun, Jianing Qiu, Benny Ping Lai Lo, “Deep3DRanker: A Novel Framework for Learning to Rank 3D Models with Self-Attention in Robotic Vision”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi’an, China, 2021, pp. 4341-4347. [Paper] (*Corresponding author)

[15] Xiao Gu, Yao Guo, Fani Deligianni, Benny Lo, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Cross-Subject and Cross-Modal Transfer for Generalized Abnormal Gait Pattern Recognition”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 546-560, 2021. [Paper]

[14] Yao Guo, Xiao Gu, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Human–Robot Interaction for Rehabilitation Robotics”, Digitalization in Healthcare: Implementing Innovation and Artificial Intelligence, Springer, pp. 269-295, 2021. [Chapter]

Before 2021

[13] Xiao-Yun Zhou*, Yao Guo, Mali Shen, Guang-Zhong Yang, “Application of Artificial Intelligence in surgery”, Frontiers of Medicine, vol. 14, pp. 417-430, 2020. [Paper]

[12] Xiao Gu, Yao Guo, Fani Deligianni,and Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Coupled real-synthetic domain adaptation for real-world deep depth enhancement”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), vol. 29, pp. 6343-6356, 2020. [Paper]

[11] Yao Guo#, Fani Deligianni#, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “From Emotions to Mood Disorders: A Survey on Gait Analysis Methodology”, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 2302-2316, 2019. [Paper] (#: Co-first author)

[10] Yao Guo, Fani Deligianni, Xiao Gu, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “3D Canonical Pose Estimation and Abnormal Gait Recognition with a Single RGB-D Camera”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 3617-3624, 2019. [Paper]

[9] Ya-Yen Tsai, Yao Guo, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Unsupervised Task Segmentation Approach for Bimanual Surgical Tasks using Spatiotemporal and Variance Properties”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Macau, China, 2019, pp. 7940-7946. [Paper]

[8] Dandan Zhang, Yao Guo, Junhong Chen, Jindong Liu, Guang-Zhong Yang*, “A Handheld Master Controller for Robot-Assisted Microsurgery”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Macau, China, 2019, pp. 394-400. [Paper]

[7] Yao Guo, You-Fu Li*, Zhanpeng Shao, “RRV: A spatiotemporal descriptor for rigid body motion recognition”, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCyber), vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 1513-1525, 2018. [Paper]

[6] Yao Guo, You-Fu Li*, Zhanpeng Shao, “DSRF: A Flexible Trajectory Descriptor for Articulated Human Action Recognition”, Pattern Recognition, vol. 76, pp. 137-148, 2018. [Paper]

[5] Yao Guo, You-Fu Li*, Zhanpeng Shao, “On multi-scale self-similarities description for effective 3D/6D motion trajectory recognition”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 3017-3026, 2017. [Paper]

[4] Yao Guo, You-Fu Li*, Zhanpeng Shao, “MSM-HOG: A flexible trajectory descriptor for rigid body motion recognition”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, Canada, 2017, pp. 4298-4303. [Paper]

[3] Yao Guo, You-Fu Li*, Zhanpeng Shao, “DSRF: A Flexible Descriptor for Effective Rigid Body Motion Trajectory Recognition”, IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), Harbin, China, 2016, pp. 1673-1678. [Paper] (Best Conference Paper Award)

[2] Yao Guo, Kaide Huang, Nanyong Jiang, Xuemei Guo, Guoli Wang*, “An Exponential-Rayleigh model for RSS-based device-free localization and tracking”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 484-494, 2015. [Paper]

[1] Yao Guo, Kaide Huang, Nanyong Jiang, Xuemei Guo, Guoli Wang*, “An Exponential-Rayleigh signal strength model for device-free localization and tracking with wireless networks”, International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP), Beijing, China, 2013, pp. 108-113. [Paper]

Team Members

PhD Students

Ms. Yating Luo (2021-), Robot Learning and robot control
Mr. Yuxuan Liu (2022-), Surginal scene understanding and surgical automation
Mr. Bingze He (2022-), Micro-manipulation and micro-robotics
Mr. Musen Zhang (2023-), Egocentric vision and human motion analysis
Ms. Yufei Luan (2024-), Human-robot interaction and human-robot collaboration
Mr. Tianshu Zhao (2026-), Brain-spinal interface and bioinspired robot learning

Master Students

Mr. Xinyao Zhou (2024-), Robot vision for microsurgical robot
Ms. Ruoyi Li (2025-), Vision-based facial palsy assessment
Mr. Jingsong Liu (2026-), Teleoperated surgical robot and human-robot interaction

Alumni

Dr. Yujian An (2021-2025); PhD; Research topic: Micro-manipulation and micro-robotics; Position: Senior Research in United Imaging Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China)
Dr. Jianxin Yang (2021-2026); Phd; Research topic: Human pose estimation and human action recogtion, vision-based human functional behavior assessment; Position: Senior Researcher in Diligine Co. Ltd. (Guangzhou, China)
Mr. Jinkai Li; Master; Research topic: gaze estimation and vision-based facial abnormalities analysis; Position: Researcher in BIGAI (Beijing, China)
Mr. Zhenye Xu; Master; Research topic: wearable and vision techniques for post-stroke movement analysis; Position: Researcher in ZTE (Shanghai, China)

Institute of Medical Robotics (IMR)

Institute of Medical Robotics is an interdisciplinary research platform at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, founded by Professor Guang-Zhong Yang, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the founding Editor-in-Chief of Science Robotics. Focusing on the early diagnosis and personalized treatment of major diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases, the Institute brings together the latest advances in robotics and related technologies to drive transformation in the fields of surgery, rehabilitation, and hospital automation. The Institute aims to lead innovative research in key technologies of medical robotics, develop a new generation of medical equipment centered on robotics and artificial intelligence, establish a multidisciplinary talent training and industrial incubation base, and promote the clinical translation of innovative robotic technologies.