Li ZHANG
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
Dr. Li Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering (MAE) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 2007. Then he joined the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS), ETH Zürich, Switzerland, as a postdoctoral fellow in 2007, and as a senior scientist from 2009 to 2012. From 2012-2017, he was an Assistant Professor in the Dept. MAE at CUHK.
Dr. Zhang’s main research interests include micro-/nanorobotics and their biomedical applications. He received the Hong Kong RGC Early Career Award in 2013. He currently serves as an Editorial Board member of Scientific Reports (NPG), an Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics (Springer) and International Journal of Advanced Robotic System (SAGE Publishing). Since 2004 he has authored and co-authored over 120 journal papers/conference proceedings/book chapters, including Science Robotics, International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), Soft Robotics (SoRo), IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-Ro), Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, as the first or the corresponding author.