Dr Siyang Zuo is Full Professor in the Key Laboratory of Mechanism Theory and Equipment Design of Ministry of Education, School of Mechanical Enginnering, Tianjin University, China, and also a National “Thousand Young Talents” Distinguished Professor, National Recruitment Program of Global Experts, China. Before coming back China, He has been learned and worked abroad (The University of Tokyo, Olympus Medical Systems Corporation and Imperial College London) for 14 years.

His main research interests are in Medical robotics and instruments, computer assisted surgery systems, and medical imaging techniques for minimally invasive precision diagnosis and therapy. He is distinguished by selection for “National Thousand Young Talents” Program (National Recruitment Program of Global Experts, China). He is also the recipient of various awards and scholarships including Young Scientist Award (2011) presented by the 14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI2011), Best Engineering Paper Award (2013)presented by Journal of Japan Society of Computer Aided Surgery, and Japanese Government Scholarship (The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan).

He is  an Associate Editor for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) in 2018,  Area Chair for the International Conference on Information Processing in Computer Assisted Interventions (IPCAI) in 2018,  Board Member for Asian Conference on Computer Aided Surgery (ACCAS) and Journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Biomedical Robotics), and he was a Program Committee Member for the International workshop on Computed-Assisted and Robotic Endoscopy in 2015 and 2016.