Cong Zhao is an associate researcher of Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ), Shenzhen, China. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering from Zhejiang University in 2010 and 2013 respectively, and received his doctorate in bioengineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2017. He served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2017 to 2019. His main research fields are microfluidic chips, biomechanics and optical fiber biosensing.