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Shihao Yang is a leading researcher in swarm microrobotics and magnetic soft machines, pioneering transformative approaches to minimally invasive medicine and intelligent remote sensing. His work centers on harnessing magnetic fields to control swarms of micro/nanorobots, enabling unprecedented capabilities in biofilm eradication, targeted drug delivery, and complex manipulation within the human body. Yang’s landmark 2022 study on a magnetic microswarm platform for biofilm eradication in biliary stents (155 citations) demonstrates a clinically impactful solution to a notoriously difficult infection challenge. His comprehensive 2021 survey on swarm microrobotics (119 citations) has become a foundational reference for the field. Yang has also broken new ground by exploiting ferrofluidic wetting to create miniature soft machines (83 citations) and by developing coalescent microrobotic collectives using ferrofluid droplets (37 citations), moving beyond solid-state robots to fluidic, reconfigurable constructs. His recent work on insect-scale biped robots and three-dimensional droplet manipulation further showcases his drive to achieve multimodal, robust locomotion in complex environments. With over 500 total citations, Yang is shaping the future of intelligent, untethered microsystems for biomedical and sensing applications.