Zhenglong Sun

Prof. SUN received his B.Eng. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and M.Eng. in Mechatronic System and Design from the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2005 and 2007 respectively. In 2008, He worked as a Visiting Scholar at the Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology, in the Johns Hopkins University. He continued to pursue his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Professor Phee Soo Jay, in NTU and successfully completed his defense in 2013. He worked in the newly established SUTD-MIT International Design Center before he joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen as a faculty member in April 2017. Currently he is also serving as the co-coordinator of the Biomedical Science and Engineering program in the School of Life and Health Sciences, and the deputy director of the intelligent robotics research center at the Shenzhen Institute of AI and Robotics for Society (AIRS).

His research interests include medical robotics/devices, human-robot interaction and collaboration, multi-modal perception and bio-inspired robots. During his Ph.D. study, he participated and developed a novel master-slave controlled multi-DOFs flexible endoscopic robot with haptic sensing and feedback, as one of the core team members. The team successfully completed world-first multi-center robotic operated endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) surgical procedures on human patients (three in India and two in Hong Kong). Now the platform has been spun off as a medtech startup company, EndoMaster Medical, winning over 10 million Singapore dollars series B funding. He also led the R&D work in many other medical applications, such as permanent magnet based real-time localization system for nasogastric intubation, and intelligent cushion for pressure ulcer prevention. In the past 10 years, he has published over 50 journal and conference papers, one PCT patent and one book chapter. Based on Google Scholar database, his work has been cited over 970 times with an h-index of 14.