This summer school will be held in Minhang Campus of Shanghai Jiaotong University from July 8th to July 15th. Characterized by internationalization, integration and cross-cutting, this summer school will provide a platform for outstanding students to directly communicate with top scholars in the field of medical robotics and medical imaging, and to exchange ideas with young scholars from different cultural backgrounds through lectures, seminars and cultural experiences. Registration is closing soon!

Deadline: 24:00 on June 21, 2023, Beijing time; The selection result is expected to be notified by mail on 25 June.

Medical Robotics

Professor Guang-Zhong Yang (CBE, FREng, FIEEE, FIET, FAIMBE, FIAMBE, FMICCAI, FCGI) is the founder and the chief scientist of the Institute of Medical Robotics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was the founder and director of the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College London, UK. Professor Yang’s main research interests are in medical imaging, sensing and robotics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, fellow of IEEE, IET, AIMBE, IAMBE, MICCAI, CGI and a recipient of the Royal Society Research Merit Award and listed in The Times Eureka ‘Top 100’ in British Science. Professor Yang is the founding editor of Science Robotics (http://robotics.sciencemag.org/) – a journal of the Science family dedicated to the latest advances in robotics and how it enables or underpins new scientific discoveries. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s 2017 New Year Honour for his contribution to biomedical engineering.

Professor Hannes Bleuler obtained his PhD at ETH Zurich in 1984 on mechatronics, spent six years at the University of Tokyo and was professor of robotics at EPFL Lausanne from 1995 to 2019. Projects included high precision mechatronics, but were mainly centered on biomedical technology, surgical instrumentation and exoskeletons. The human-machine interface and, specifically, haptic interaction were among the topics of interest of about 30 PhDs supervised at his robotics lab of EPFL.

Professor Peer Fischer heads the Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and he is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart. Peer Fischer received a BSc. degree in Physics from Imperial College London and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1999. He was a NATO (DAAD) Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University, before joining the Rowland Institute at Harvard. He held a Rowland Fellowship at Harvard and directed an interdisciplinary research lab for five years. In 2009 he received an Attract Award from the Fraunhofer Society, Germany. In 2011 he moved his labs to the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, and since 2013 he is a Professor at the University of Stuttgart. Peer Fischer won an ERC Grant as a consolidator in 2011 and in 2016 he won a World Technology Award. He received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2018. He is a member of the Max Planck – EPFL Center for Molecular Nanoscience and Technology, and the research network on Learning Systems with ETH Zürich. Peer Fischer is an Editorial Board Member of the journal Science Robotics and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Fischer has broad research interests including 3d nanofabrication & assembly, micro- and nano-robotics, active matter, interaction of optical, electric, magnetic, and acoustic fields with matter at small length scales, and molecular systems engineering.

Xiaozhou Wang is the Director of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical College, Executive Deputy Director of Shanghai Chest Hospital Medical Robotics Clinical Center, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical Robotics Institute. He graduated from Tongji University School of Medicine in 1990 and was licensed to practice cardiothoracic surgery in Oregon, USA from 1997.7 to 1999.8. He has been practicing cardiac surgery for two years at Starr International Heart Center in the United States. He was the first to perform minimally invasive surgical closure of atrial septal defects and ventricular septal defects in infancy (non-extracorporeal circulation) in China.

Associate Professor Guangyu Qiu received his M. Sc. and Ph. D degree from the City University of Hong Kong in 2014 and 2017. He postdoc-ed at ETH Zurich from 2018 to 2022, and then joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University as Associate Professor in 2022. His main research interests cover cross-disciplinary fields including nanophotonics biosensing technologies, light-matter interactions, functional nanomaterials, biosensing robotics and their life science, environmental and biochemical applications. In recent years, he has been mainly engaged in theoretical exploration and technological development of thermoplasmonic-based biosensors, and has innovatively proposed a novel concept of dual-functional biosensor which combining thermoplasmonic heating and localized surface plasmon resonance. He has authored more than 40 SCI papers published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as in ACS Nano, Adv. Sci., Adv. Funct. Mater,

Sci. Adv., Biosens. Bioelectron., and Anal. Chem. His research works also led to five international

patents, and related research outcomes have been reported by China Global Television Network (CGTN), and Swiss Radio and Television (SRF).

Dr. Anzhu Gao received the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechatronics engineering from the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2009, 2011, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in mechatronics engineering from the Shenyang Institute of Automation, the State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, and also the University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, in 2017. From 2014 to 2015, he was a Visiting Student with the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Johns Hopkins University, USA. He was an Engineer in a company in Shanghai from 2011 to 2013 and a Research Associate with the Hamlyn Center for Robotic Surgery, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, U.K., from 2017 to 2019.

He is currently Associate Professor with the Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. His research interests include medical robots, continuum robots, soft robots, medical sensors, etc.

Dandan Zhang is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) with the Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, affiliated with Bristol Robotics Lab. She has cross-disciplinary interests in robotics and AI. She received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, in 2021. Over the past 2 years, she has also been an honorary researcher at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London. She is the Deputy Programme Director for MSc Biorobotics at the University of Bristol. She leads a research team of over 12 students and researchers with main focus on 'intelligent robotics across scales'. She has been working on robot learning (imitation learning and reinforcement learning), human-robot interaction, micro-robotics, AI for science, tactile robotics, Internet of Things, with applications in medical robotics, assistive robotics, and domestic robotics. She aims to enhance the level of autonomy for multi-scale robotics systems. She envisions that intelligent robots will reshape our world by providing tangible benefits in our daily life and contributing to the healthcare system.   

She has been awarded the Amazon PhD prizes for outstanding achievement in robotics, UK best PhD award in Robotics, ICRA Best Paper Award in Human-robot interaction. In the past 5 years, she has more than 30 papers published in top journals or world-renowned international conferences. She has been invited to speak at over 10 international conferences, workshops, or research institutes.

Intelligent Imaging

Professor Guoyan Zheng received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering in 1992 and 1995, respectively from The First Military Medical University (Now renamed as Southern Medical University), and Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2002 from The University of Bern, Switzerland. Since 2019, he has been at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University where he is currently a professor at the School of Biomedical Engineering, and the Director and the founder of the Center for Image-guided Therapy and Interventions (CITI), Institute of Medical Robotics. Before he joined the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he worked at the University of Bern for almost 20 years, first as a PhD student, then as a post-doc until 2004. In 2005, He founded the Lab Of Information Processing in Medical Interventions (IPMI) and directed the Lab until the end of 2018. In 2010, he did his habilitation on medical image computing and received the venia decendi from the University of Bern. He also holds the title of Privatdozent (PD) at the same university. He became an Associate Professor of the University of Bern in 2015. He was a visiting professor in the Image-based Computational Biomedicine Lab at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology from May 2018 to June 2018.

Professor Xiaojun Chen is full professor, with Institute of Biomedical Manufacturing, School of Mechanical Engineering, SJTU. As a visiting professor, he had worked at the Surgical Planning Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, TIMC-IMAG lab(CNRS, France), KU Leuven(Belgium), etc. His research focuses on biomedical engineering, including medical image analysis, image-guided interventions, artificial intelligence in biomedical physics and analysis, VR/AR/MR technology in medicine, medical robotics, biomedical manufacturing, etc. He is the author and co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed journal/conference articles in MedIA, IEEE TMI etc., the owner of more than 20 patents, the PI of more than 30 research projects, including seven funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China. He was granted Second Prize of National Science & Technology Progress Award of China (2019). He is an associate editor or editorial board member of the 12 SCI-indexed journals, including an associate editor of Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, Computer Assisted Surgery and IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, Deputy editor of Medical Engineering & Physics, an executive editorial board member of Physics in Medicine & Biology, and editorial board member of IJCARS, IJMRCAS etc.

Associate Professor Jianjiang Feng, he is an associate professor of the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University and a Ph. His research interests are image processing and pattern recognition. He is an editorial board member of the international academic journal Image and Vision Computing, the field chair of International Conference on Biometrics (2014-2016), and the program committee chair of China Biometrics Conference (2015-2018). . He has published more than 80 papers in international academic journals and conferences, including 10 long papers in T-PAMI, the top journal in the field of pattern recognition. Received more than 10 Chinese invention patents and 4 US invention patents, and fingerprint technology licensed to domestic and international leaders. He has received 3 best paper awards/best student paper awards in international conferences, 1 first prize of scientific and technological progress from the Chinese Institute of Electronics, 2 second prizes of natural science from the Ministry of Education, and excellent young fund from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Associate Professor  Yun Gu received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is currently a Associate Professor with the Institute of Medical Robotics and Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He has published in major conferences and journals including MedIA/IEEE TMI/TIP/TNNLS/TBME/JBHI and MICCAI/ICRA/IROS. His major research interests are computer-assisted surgical planning and medical image analysis.

Dr. Yuan Feng is an associate professor of biomedical engineering.  Dr. Yuan Feng earned a B.S. degree in Thermo Energy and Power Engineering in 2006 and an M.S. degree in Mechatronics in 2008, both from Harbin Institute of Technology in China. In 2008, he earned a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis with Drs. Philip Bayly and Guy Genin. His postdoctoral training was at Washington University School of Medicine with Dr. Yanle Hu in 2013, and at the University of Texas at Austin with Dr. Michael Sacks in 2014. He was a faculty member at Soochow University from late 2014 to 2017. Since early 2018 he moved to Shanghai Jiao Tong University and joined the School of Biomedical Engineering. His research interests are brain biomechanics, MR elastography, and interventional MRI. He has authored or coauthored 37 referred papers, 1 book, 11 Chinese patents, and 4 US patents.

Applicants: (1) Quota: 25 students (2) worldwide, biomedical engineering, control science and engineering, materials science and engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science and technology and related interdisciplinary postgraduate students, doctoral students, doctoral students, especially outstanding undergraduate students can be admitted.

Fee Description: The summer school is free of tuition fees, provides meals for participating in school activities, and assists in booking accommodation. Accommodation and transportation expenses are covered by yourself.

Application process: (1) Send your resume (subject: [Summer School] + name) to imr@sjtu.edu.cn; (2) The deadline for registration and resume collection is 24:00 on June 21, 2023, Beijing time. The Academy will screen the enrolled students according to their personal conditions, and notify the students of the admission results by email before 24:00 on June 25, 2023 (Beijing time).

Web information: https://imr.sjtu.edu.cn/sqxx2023.html

Contact information: Mr Wu email: imr@sjtu.edu.cn tel: Address: S222, 2nd Floor, Translational Medicine Building, 800 Dongchuan Road, Minhang District, Shanghai, China