Invited Speaker

Assoc. Prof. Yunquan Li

South China University of Technology, China

Biography: Yunquan Li, Associate Professor，Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology. Dr. Yunquan Li received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 2020. His research focuses on soft and bio-inspired robotics. To date, he has published 40 papers in internationally renowned journals and conferences in the field of robotics, including IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), Soft Robotics, Advanced Intelligent Systems (AISY), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Smart Materials and Structures, and Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. Dr. Li has been the PI of projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation, and the Guangzhou Natural Science Foundation. He has received several awards, including the Trusted Reviewer Award from the IOP Publishing, the runner-up prize in the ICRA Soft Robotics Competition, and the Best Conference Paper Award at IEEE ICIA. Dr. Li is a Guest Editor for Micromachines. He has been a reviewer for over 30 leading international journals, such as IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), Advanced Science, and Advanced Functional Materials.

Assoc. Prof. TENG SHEN

Guangzhou University, China

Biograph: Dr TENG SHEN, associate professor and department head of school of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guangzhou University. In 2017, he graduated from School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology with a Ph.D. He is also a joint Dr candidate at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. His research content is oriented to basic biology and biomedical engineering applications, closely combining robotics and micro/nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) technology, committed to micro-nano robot preparation technology, microfluidics device and system integration, and new micro-nano Innovative research in the direction of sensors. By 2024, he has presided over 8 national nature projects, provincial and ministerial projects and other competitive scientific research projects, published more than 30 papers in Lab Chip, JMM, Biofabrication, SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL, JOURNAL OF BIONIC ENGINEERINGl and other famous academic journals in this field, and applied for more than 20 patents. He is currently the head of the Laboratory of Micro-Nano System and Manufacturing of Guangzhou University, the top young scholar in Guangzhou, the senior member of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering and the senior member of the Chinese Society of Micrometers and Nanometers.