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Dr. Hao Su, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the New York University. He is the Director of Biomechatronics and Intelligent Robotics Lab. He was an associate professor at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, after previously serving as the Irwin Zahn Endowed Assistant Professor at City College of the City University of New York. He was a Research Scientist at Philips Research North America where he designed robots for lung surgery, and then a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. He obtained Ph.D. degree on Surgical Robotics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Su received NSF CAREER Award, Switzer Distinguished Fellow by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Toyota Mobility Challenge Discover Award, the Best Medical Robotics Paper Runner-up Award in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Best Student Paper Award, Dynamic Systems & Control Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Philips Innovation Transfer Award. He received the Advanced Simulation & Training Award from the Link Foundation and Dr. Richard Schlesinger Award from the American Society for Quality. His work was published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Nature, Science Robotics, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, and Science Advances. He serves as Technical Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, associate editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer-Assisted Surgery. He is a keynote speaker of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). In addition, Dr. Su is the Chair of the Mechatronics Technical Committee, Dynamic Systems & Control Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the Co-Chair of the Technical Committee on Mechanisms and Design, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). He is a member of the Organizing Committee and Senior Program Committee of IROS 2026. Dr. Su is reviewer of NIH Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Sciences Study Section (BTSS) and NIH Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Sciences Study Section (MRS). He holds patents on surgical robotics and socially assistive robots.