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Yinghui Shang is a leading researcher in the field of soft materials and flexible electronics, with a primary focus on conductive hydrogels, wearable sensors, and soft robotics. Her most impactful work, a 2020 study on highly stretchable and self-healing strain sensors for wireless human-machine interfaces, has garnered 185 citations, underscoring its significance in advancing next-generation interactive technologies. Shang’s research bridges materials science and engineering, notably through her pioneering efforts to integrate conductive hydrogels into soft robots for environmental sensing, as demonstrated in her 2018 study on touch locating and stretch sensing. She has also made notable contributions to energy storage, developing regenerated hydrogel electrolytes for all-gel supercapacitors, and to bioinspired materials, creating spatiotemporally-regulated multienzymatic polymerization systems that enable hydrogels with continuous gradients and spontaneous actuation. Her work is characterized by a focus on multifunctionality—combining stretchability, self-healing, and sensing—to solve real-world challenges in human-machine interaction and soft robotics. With a growing citation record and a portfolio of innovative, application-driven research, Shang is establishing herself as a key figure in the development of intelligent, adaptive soft materials.