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Yinji Ma is a leading figure in flexible and stretchable electronics, with a particular focus on creating intelligent, skin-like interfaces for robotics and biomedical applications. His work masterfully bridges materials science, mechanics, and device engineering to solve fundamental challenges in human-machine interaction. Ma’s most impactful contribution is the development of a large-area, MRI-compatible epidermal electronic interface, which has garnered 393 citations for its groundbreaking ability to enable both prosthetic control and cognitive monitoring in a clinical setting. To address the limitations of conventional sensors, he has pioneered novel structural designs, such as a strain-isolation bridge that dramatically improves the stretchability of highly sensitive strain sensors, and centrosymmetric-patterned tactile sensors that allow robots to intelligently recognize roughness and slip for damage-free grasping. Further demonstrating his versatility, Ma has explored non-contact actuation in bistable structures for soft robotics and developed a soft crawling microrobot with flexible optoelectronics that exhibits autonomous phototaxis. Through these innovations, Yinji Ma is not only advancing the fundamental science of flexible electronics but also creating the tangible, high-performance components needed for the next generation of soft, perceptive, and autonomous machines.