Zhiyong Yang is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tianjin University,  and do the research on Surgerical robot, Image guided system. He get his Ph.D from Tianjin University and worked in HongKong University of Science and Technology, Manchester University and Cardiff University as Visiting Scholarship in 1999, 2005, 2016 repectively. He get award as New century talent of Chinese Ministry of Education in 2010.