Changsheng Dai is a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor. He has been selected for the National Overseas High-Level Young Talent Program and the “Xingliao Talent Program” for Young Top Talents. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a Senior Member of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2014 and 2016, respectively, at the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System, under the supervision of Prof. Weibin Rong. In 2020, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, under the supervision of Prof. Yu Sun, a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Sciences, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. From 2020 to 2023, he continued his postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto, during which he received the Mitacs Accelerate Award from the Canadian Mathematical Society for Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) and the National Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad Scholarship (Category B for postdoctoral fellows, 50 recipients worldwide per year).

His research focuses on micro/nano manipulation and precision assembly robotics, with applications in healthcare, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing. Over the past five years, he has published more than 50 papers, including a cover article in Nature Reviews Urology, three papers in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and articles in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, among others. He received the Best Automation Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2019 as first author, three First Prizes for video presentations from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, and Best Paper Finalist Awards from IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. As first author, he has published one English monograph and one edited volume, released by Springer Nature and Elsevier, respectively, and has co-authored two additional books.

He has served as principal investigator for ministerial-level projects, a General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Liaoning Provincial General Programs, and has participated in key projects under the National Key Research and Development Program of China. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, a Co-General Chair of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems (ACIRS), and an external reviewer for grants of the French National Research Agency (ANR).