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Jisoo Jeon is a pioneering researcher in the field of soft robotics, specializing in the contactless manipulation and multi-modal locomotion of miniaturized soft machines. Their work centers on leveraging magnetic fields and light as external stimuli to achieve precise, tether-free control over soft robots, addressing fundamental challenges in parallel actuation and autonomous reconfiguration. Jeon’s major contributions include the development of hierarchical magnetomotility for on-demand orbital maneuvers of multiple soft robots—a breakthrough that overcomes interference issues in collective magnetic control, as evidenced by their most-cited paper (81 citations). They have also advanced helical soft robots with efficient magnetomotility (50 citations) and pioneered light-triggered shape-reconfigurable systems, including a light-fueled climbing torsional soft robot (20 citations) and autonomous rechargeable power sources (21 citations). Notably, Jeon’s work on using *Caenorhabditis elegans* as a microscale model for multi-modal locomotion (7 citations) demonstrates an innovative bio-inspired approach. With over 240 total citations across their top papers, Jeon’s research is shaping the future of untethered soft robotics, offering transformative potential for biomedical devices and micro-manipulation technologies.