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Jiulin Gan is an emerging researcher at the forefront of flexible photonics, soft robotics, and smart materials, with expertise spanning fiber-optic sensing, light-driven actuation, and bioinspired artificial muscles. His work addresses a critical challenge in modern engineering: enabling optical fiber technologies to operate effectively in flexible, dynamic environments where conventional rigid systems fail. Gan's landmark contributions include pioneering self-healing multimodal flexible optoelectronic fiber sensors (2023, 42 citations) that overcome the fragility inherent in traditional optical fibers, and a comprehensive review of flexible optical fiber sensing methodologies (2024, 30 citations) that has rapidly become a key reference for researchers in wearable healthcare and soft robotics. His investigation into photoactuators capable of giant reversible shape change (2021, 23 citations) demonstrated the transformative potential of integrating optical waveguiding with mechanical actuation. More recently, Gan has pushed boundaries with liquid crystal elastomer-based artificial muscles that achieve multimodal, precisely controlled actuation—mimicking natural skeletal muscle behavior. His development of scalable coaxial extrusion techniques for LCE optical fibers represents a particularly innovative advance, enabling intrinsic photomechanical synergy. Collectively accumulating over 120 citations, Gan's research is shaping the future of intelligent soft systems across biomedical, robotic, and sensing applications.