Anzhu Gao, a full-time faculty member at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, has been appointed as a professor and the director of the Center for Surgical Robotics. He is also a PhD supervisor and a recipient of the National Natural Science Foundation for Outstanding Young Scholars, the Shanghai Rising Star Program, and the Shanghai Oriental Talent Project. He has led numerous national and provincial/municipal projects, as well as the Robotics X Rhinoceros Bird Special Project jointly sponsored by the China Electronics Society and Tencent. He has conducted research on robots at Harbin Institute of Technology, the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Johns Hopkins University in the United States, and Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. He has been engaged in research on key technologies for flexible continuum robots operating in narrow cavities for around 15 years, focusing on the directions of flexible robots, continuum robots, intelligent perception and interaction. His research findings have been published in Science Robotics, Science Advances, Nature Communications, IEEE TRO, Soft Robotics, IEEE/ASME TMECH, IEEE TIE, etc. He is also serving as AEs for IEEE TRO and IEEE RA-L.

2013 - 2017: PhD in Mechatronics Engineering, Shenyang Institute of Automation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China (Supervisors: Prof. Zhidong Wang, Prof. Hao Liu) 2014 - 2015: Visiting Student, LCSR, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States of America (Supervisors: Prof. Russell Taylor, Prof. Mehran Armand, Prof. Iulian Iordachita) 2009 - 2011: Master in Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China (Supervisors: Prof. Shuguo Wang, Prof. Yili Fu) 2005 - 2009: Bachelor in Mechanical Design, Manufacture and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China (Supervisor: Prof. Yili Fu)

2025 - Now: Professor, Dept. of Automation, Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai, China (Collaborators: Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang, Prof. Weidong Chen) 2022 - 2025: Associate Professor, Dept. of Automation, Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai, China (Collaborators: Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang, Prof. Weidong Chen) 2019 - 2022: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Automation, Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai, China (Collaborators: Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang, Prof. Weidong Chen) 2017 - 2019: Research Associate, The Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom (Collaborator: Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang) 2011 - 2013: Work in Industry

Surgical Robots, Continuum Robots, Dexterous Manipulators, Fiber Robots, Medical Robots, Micro Robots, Robot Sensing