Pan Li, a female born in December 1990, currently holds the position of an associate professor and serves as a supervisor for master’s students in the College of Mechanical Engineering at Tianjin University of Science and Technology. Pan Li received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China in 2014 and 2019, respectively. She conducted doctoral joint training at the Urology Robotics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, from 2016 to 2018. Her research interests focus on micro robots, flexible surgical instruments, virtual reality, and human-computer interaction. She has led six projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Tianjin Natural Science Foundation, Scientific Research Program of Tianjin Municipal Education Commission, Tianjin Metrology Science and Technology Project, Open Fund of the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, and the Industry-University-Research Collaborative Innovation Open Project on Virtual Reality sponsored by the China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Promotion Association. In addition, she has undertaken 4 enterprise-commissioned projects. She has published 42 academic papers, among which 23 are indexed by SCI, 1 by SSCI, and 2 in leading journals included in the Excellent Action Plan for China Science and Technology Journals. The total number of citations of her papers has reached 680, with the highest number of citations for a single paper