Zheng Li received his B.S and M.S degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Beihang University, China, and his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Automation Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. After that, he joined National University of Singapore as research fellow. Currently he is an associate professor in the department of surgery, Multi-scale Medical Robotics Centre, Chow Yuk Ho Technology Centre for Innovative Medicine, and Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

His research mainly focuses on the area of intelligent bio-inspired medical robots, including flexible surgical robots, magnetically actuated medical robots and soft medical robots/devices. He is a senior member of IEEE, member of ASME, RAS and EMBS. In the past years, he served as editor of Frontiers of Robotics & AI, IEEE BioRob and associate editor of IEEE RA-L, IEEE ICRA, IEEE IROS, IEEE RoboSoft and IEEE BioRob. In addition, he is committee member of several conferences, such as Robio, ICIA and CCECE, and reviewer of journals, including IEEE/ASME T-MECH, IEEE TRO, SORO, IEEE TIE, Bioinspireation & Biomimetics, etc. He is the author of one book, three book chapters, over 100 peer-reviewed journal/conference papers, and several patents/copyrights. He received the silver of 47th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, conference paper award of IEEE CCECE 2015, best paper finalist of IEEE Robio 2012, IEEE CCECE 2015 and best poster finalist of IEEE ICRA 2017, etc. Zheng’s research is well supported by RGC/GRF, RGC/ECS, ITF, etc.