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Guo‐Yuan Yang is a leading researcher in stroke rehabilitation and gait robotics, whose work bridges neural coupling mechanisms with innovative assistive technologies. His primary research areas include ischaemic stroke recovery, interlimb neural coordination, and the development of advanced orthotic systems for walking restoration. Yang’s major contributions center on understanding how arm swing and active ankle control, driven by neural coupling between limbs, can enhance gait rehabilitation. His 2023 paper on advanced rehabilitation in ischaemic stroke (27 citations) highlights the critical challenge of rising disability among survivors despite reduced mortality, emphasizing the need for targeted therapies for elderly patients. He also designed an improved rotational orthosis that integrates arm swing and active ankle control (2020, 7 citations), moving beyond passive systems to actively engage upper-limb movement during walking. His models for temporal-spatial gait parameters (2018, 5 citations) provide simple yet accurate tools for estimating stride length and speed, aiding clinical gait assessment. Yang’s 2014 review on interlimb neural coupling laid foundational insights for walking rehabilitation. With over 40 total citations, his work is pivotal for developing next-generation robotic orthoses that leverage neural plasticity to restore natural, coordinated walking in stroke survivors.