Zecai Lin is an Assistant Researcher in the School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2024 and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research in Control Science and Engineering at the same university. After completing his postdoctoral appointment in 2026, he joined the university as a faculty member. He serves as principal investigator on multiple national and provincial research projects, including a Young Scientists Fund (Category C) project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and was selected for the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Grade C) of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. His research focuses on surgical robotics, including continuum robots, robot shape and force sensing, and augmented reality-assisted intervention. He has published as first or co-first author in robotics journals including IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and Soft Robotics.

Young Scientists Fund (Category C), National Natural Science Foundation of China; Youth Project, Shanghai Natural Science Foundation; General Program, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.

Five Representative Publications:

• Zecai Lin#, Jingyuan Xia#, Zheng Xu, Yun Zou, Cheng Zhou, Jiafan Chen, Lucas Tat-Long Tong, Shaoping Huang, Huanghua Liu, Weidong Chen, Guang-Zhong Yang and Anzhu Gao, “Real-Time Whole-Body Contact Estimation of Continuum Robots Using Multiplexed Fibers for Embodied Actuation and Sensing to Quantify Interactions,” Soft Robotics, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 505–516, 2026.

• Zecai Lin, Cheng Zhou, Shaoping Huang, Weidong Chen, Guang-Zhong Yang and Anzhu Gao, “Progress in Deformation Sensing for Flexible Robots,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 113, no. 8, pp. 752–782, 2025.

• Anzhu Gao#, Zecai Lin#, Cheng Zhou, Xiaojie Ai, Bidan Huang, Weidong Chen and Guang-Zhong Yang, “Body Contact Estimation of Continuum Robots With Tension-Profile Sensing of Actuation Fibers,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 40, pp. 1492–1508, 2024.

• Zecai Lin#, Zheng Xu#, Huanghua Liu, Xuyang Wang, Xiaojie Ai, Cheng Zhou, Bidan Huang, Weidong Chen, Guang-Zhong Yang and Anzhu Gao, “Robotic Manipulator-Assisted Omnidirectional Augmented Reality for Endoluminal Intervention Telepresence,” Advanced Intelligent Systems, vol. 6, no. 1, Art. no. 2300373, 2024.

• Zecai Lin, Anzhu Gao, Xiaojie Ai, Hongyan Gao, Yili Fu, Weidong Chen and Guang-Zhong Yang, “ARei: Augmented-Reality-Assisted Touchless Teleoperated Robot for Endoluminal Intervention,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 3144–3154, 2022.