Anzhu Gao is a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), where he serves as Assistant to the Dean of the School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing and the Institute of Medical Robotics. He is a recipient of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Excellent Young Scientists Fund, the Shanghai Rising-Star Program, and the Shanghai Oriental Talents Young Scholar Program. He has served as Principal Investigator for several national and provincial research projects, including the National Key R&D Program of China (Young Scientist Project). He has conducted robotics research at Harbin Institute of Technology (under the supervision of Prof. Shuguo Wang and Prof. Yili Fu), the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (under the supervision of Prof. Zhidong Wang and Prof. Hao Liu), Johns Hopkins University (with Prof. Russell H. Taylor, Prof. Mehran Armand, and Prof. Iulian Iordachita), and Imperial College London (with Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang). He currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). His research focuses on the fundamental technologies of soft and continuum robots, with particular interests in soft robotics, continuum robotics, fiber-scale microrobotics, intelligent sensing and interaction, and embodied intelligence. His research findings have been published as first or corresponding author in leading journals, including Science Robotics, Science Advances, Nature Communications, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Soft Robotics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund; National Key R&D Program of China (Young Scientist Project); Shanghai Rising-Star Program; Shanghai Oriental Talents Young Scholar Program.

• Undergraduate Zhiyuan Honors Course: Mechanism and Control of Medical Robots

• Undergraduate Course: Mobile Robotics

• Shanghai Jiao Tong University Ruiyuan Young Scientist Award (Information and Space Technology), 2026

Five Selected Recent Publications：

• Zecai Lin, Cheng Zhou, Shaoping Huang, Weidong Chen, Guang-Zhong Yang*, Anzhu Gao*, “Progress in deformation sensing for flexible robots,” Proceedings of the IEEE, 113(8): 752-782, 2025.

• 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*, Anzhu Gao*, “Real-time whole-body contact estimation of continuum robots using multiplexed fibers for embodied actuation and sensing to quantify interactions,” Soft Robotics, 2025.

• Shaoping Huang, Zhao He, Yi Chen, Jiafan Chen, Shijie Hong, Yi Zhang, Longyu Xu, Yixin Pan, Shuo Ma, Lian Xuan, Qingdang Meng, Yong Yang, Yangyang Xu, Zecai Lin, Chuqian Lou, Cheng Zhou, Weidong Chen, Bomin Sun, Qingfang Sun*, Yuan Feng*, Anzhu Gao*, and Guang-Zhong Yang*, “Hybrid pneumatic-hydraulic actuation for MRI-guided robotic stereotactic neurointervention,” Science Advances, 11(36), 2025.

• Hongyan Gao, Huanghua Liu, Huan Jia, Zecai Lin, Yun Zou, Zheng Xu, Shaoping Huang, Haoyue Tan, Hao Wu*, Weidong Chen*, and Anzhu Gao*, “Multi-axis robotic forceps with decoupled pneumatic actuation and force sensing for cochlear implantation,” Nature Communications, 16:1648, 2025.

• Cheng Zhou, Zheng Xu, Zecai Lin, Xiaotong Qin, Jingyuan Xia, Xiaojie Ai, Chuqian Lou, Ziyi Huang, Shaoping Huang, Huanghua Liu, Yun Zou, Weidong Chen*, Guang-Zhong Yang*, Anzhu Gao*, “Submillimeter fiber robots capable of decoupled macro-micro motion for endoluminal manipulation,” Science Advances, 10(47), 2024.