Professor Guang-Zhong Yang is the founder and chief scientist of the Institute of Medical Robotics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was the founding director of the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College London. Professor Yang is also the Chairman of the advisory board, the UK-RAS Network (http://ukras.org). 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.
Current Appointment
Chair Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chief Scientist, Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Editor-in-chief, Science Robotics
Chairman, British Association of Robots and Automatic Control Systems
Deputy Chairman, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London
Professor, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London
Higher Education
1988-1991 Imperial College, PhD, Computer Science
1982-1986 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, BSc
Employments
Nov 2019 - present Chair professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Dec 2017 - present Dean, Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Sept 2001 - Nov 2017 Chair in Medical Image Computing, Imperial College London, UK
Oct 2000 - Aug 2001 Reader, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
April 1999 - Sept 2000 Lecturer, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
Oct 1991 - April 1999 Principal Scientist, Royal Brompton Hospital London, UK
Appointments
2017 - Dean, Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2010 – Co-Founder, Director, Robotic Assisted Microsurgery Laboratory
2010 – Deputy Chairman, Institute of Global Health Innovation
2008 - Co-Founder, Director, Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery
2006 – Chairman, Centre for Pervasive Sensing, Imperial College
2005-2010 Director of Imaging and Robotics, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College
2004-2006 Theme Leader in Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College
2003-2005 Chairman, Imperial College Imaging Sciences Centre
2002 – Founder and Co-Director, Wolfson Surgical Technology Laboratory
2001 – Founder and Director of Royal Society/Wolfson Foundation MIC Laboratory
1999 – Head of Visual Information Processing Group, Department of Computing, Imperial College London
Fellowships
FREng, Fellow the Royal Academy of Engineering
FIET, Fellow of The Institute of Engineering and Technology (formerly IEE)
FIEEE, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
FAIMBE, Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
FIAMBE, Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering
FCGI, Fellow of the City and Guilds Institute.
Institute of Medical Robotics