Yu Sun
Professor
Leads the Advanced Micro and Nanosystems Lab on robotic micromanipulation and medical robotics.
Yu Sun's lab at Toronto works on soft, surgical & micro robots and manipulation & robot learning. 93 papers since 2023, 8 at top venues, mostly Nature Communications and PNAS. 81 alumni, most often to Baylis Medical Company and Microsoft. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 24/ year
- at T1 venues
- 9%
- PhD students
- 0
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 81
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 17 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 35 papers2025 · T1 1
- 21 papers2024 · T1 3
- 20 papers2023 · T1 3
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Nature Communications, PNAS, Science Robotics, Medical Image Analysis, Neuron
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Soft, surgical & micro robots14 papers
- Manipulation & robot learning14 papers
- advanced0 papers
- medical robotics0 papers
- industrial engineering0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202617 papers
- IEEE Trans. RoboticsA fifth-order POE-based method for kinematic identification and inverse kinematics of serial robots
- IEEE Robotics & Automation LettersA hybrid control framework with learning-based overshoot compensation for accurate robotic pouring
- IEEE Trans. RoboticsA magnetic capsule for navigation and multi-targeted sampling in the gastrointestinal tract
- Microsystems & NanoengineeringAdvances in engineered 3D cardiac tissue for functional biosensing, disease modeling, and regenerative medicine
- IEEE Trans. Automation Science and EngineeringAutomated instance segmentation network for overlapping cells in cleavage-stage embryos
- IEEE Trans. Automation Science and EngineeringAutomated microscopy video object detection of motile cells with static-dynamic transformers
- IEEE Trans. Automation Science and EngineeringAutomated quantification of trophectoderm morphology in human blastocysts via instance segmentation
- Robotics & Automation LettersAutomated sperm DNA integrity prediction via a high-frequency enhanced cross-scale transformer
- IEEE Robotics and Automation MagazineBringing magnetic robotics to medical practice
- Advanced Intelligent SystemsContact force estimation of continuum robots without embedded sensors: a review
- IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary ComputationDirected morphological evolution for fast robot structure optimization
- EngineeringElectromechanical coupling effects in 2D materials: a review
202535 papers
- IEEE Trans. RoboticsA cable-driven anthropomorphic soft robotic hand with an in-hand RGB-D camera for dexterous grasping and manipulation
- Developmental CellA forward genetic screen identifies potassium channel essentiality in SHH medulloblastoma maintenance
- Optical ExpressA liquid lens-based endoscopic OCT probe with adjustable focus for 3D imaging in cross-sectionally irregular lumens
- ACS NanoA mechanically matched heart-on-a-chip platform mediated maturation of excitation-contraction coupling
- IEEE Trans. Instrumentation & MeasurementA robot-assisted optical coherence tomography (OCT) system for inspecting inner wall defects in non-spherical lumens
- PNAS (T1)A thermodynamic perspective on mammalian neural crest ingression
- ACS Applied Materials & InterfacesA yeast-fermented porous coating for anti-icing enabled by photothermal trapping and crack promotion
- Robotics and Computer-Integrated ManufacturingAccurate backside boundary recognition of girth weld beads
- DropletAn electrocyte-inspired moisture-driven electricity generator for self-sustained water electrolysis
- Human ReproductionAn interpretable artificial intelligence approach to differentiate between blastocysts with similar or same morphological grades
- Microsystems & NanoengineeringAutomated and collision-free navigation of multiple micro-objects in obstacle-dense microenvironments using optoelectronic tweezers
- IEEE Trans. Automation Science and EngineeringAutomated live cell evaluation via a CNN-transformer combined microscopy image enhancement network
202421 papers
- IEEE Trans. RoboticsA bioinspired single actuator-driven soft robot capable of multi-strategy locomotion
- Science AdvancesA fibronectin gradient remodels mixed phase mesoderm
- Nature Communications (T1)A magnetic multi-layer soft robot for on-demand targeted adhesion
- IEEE Trans. NanobioscienceAn AFM viscoelastic characterization method for cell classification
- IEEE Trans. Automation Science and EngineeringAutomated point-of-care semen analysis using smartphone imaging and occlusion-aware multi-object tracking
- Medical Image Analysis (T1)CP-Net: Instance-aware part segmentation network for biological cell parsing
- PatternsEnhancing IVF success: the potential of self-supervised learning in embryo selection
- Microsystems & NanoengineeringFlexible pressure sensors with ultrahigh stress tolerance enabled by periodic micro-slits
- ResearchHigh-resolution imaging and morphological phenotyping of C. elegans through stable robotic sample rotation and artificial intelligence-based 3-dimensional reconstruction
- Mechanobiology in MedicineLow-magnitude high-frequency vibration reduces prostate cancer growth and extravasation in vitro
- BoneMechanotransduction pathways regulating YAP nuclear translocation under Yoda1 and vibration in osteocytes
- Microsystems NanoengineeringMicrofluidic platforms for cardiomyocytes electromechanical monitoring: methodologies, technologies, applications, and design strategies
202320 papers
- IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering3D morphology measurement for blastocyst evaluation from all angles
- IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics3D structured light scanning with phase domain-modulated fringe patterns
- Advanced Healthcare MaterialsA polypyrrole-polycarbonate polyurethane elastomer alleviates cardiac arrhythmias via improving bio-conductivity
- Lab on a ChipA review on microrobots driven by optical and magnetic fields
- IEEE Trans. RoboticsA soft, lightweight flipping robot with versatile motion capabilities for wall-climbing applications
- IEEE Trans. Industrial ElectronicsAutomated exposures selection for high dynamic range structured-light 3D scanning
- IEEE Trans. Automation Science and EngineeringAutomated morphological grading of human blastocysts from multi-focus images
- IEEE Trans. Automation Science and EngineeringAutomated piezo-assisted sperm immobilization
- Nature Communications (T1)Conductive and elastic bottlebrush elastomers for ultrasoft electronics
- eLifeDevelopment and evaluation of a live birth prediction model for evaluating human blastocysts: a retrospective study
- PNAS (T1)Indentation induces instantaneous nuclear stiffening and unfolding of nuclear envelope wrinkles
- Science AdvancesMechanical nanosurgery of chemoresistant glioblastoma using magnetically controlled carbon nanotubes
Where alumni went81 listed, 49% to industry
Industry 18Academia 19
Most often to
- Baylis Medical Company
- Microsoft
- NexJ Systems Inc.
Also to
- University of Toronto
- University of Michigan
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
Apply to TorontoFall 2027
Computer Science MSc/PhD
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