Cong Zhao received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2010 and 2013, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2017. From 2017 to 2019, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at HKUST, where he translated his doctoral research on personalized circulating tumor cell elasto-filtration microfluidic chips into practical technology, which was later deployed in Hangzhou. From 2020 to 2025, he worked at Shenzhen University and the Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ), focusing on intelligent optical fiber sensing technologies and their translation. Since 2025, he has been serving as a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology. He has led three research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientists Fund, published over 30 SCI-indexed papers, and holds 5 granted patents.

Education

2013-2017 Ph.D., Bioengineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology （HKUST）

2010-2013 Master, Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang University

2006-2010 Bachelor, Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang University

Work Experience

2025-present Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

2022-2025 Associate Researcher, Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ)

2020-2022 Associate Researcher, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University

2017-2019 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, HKUST

Honor

2019 Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition for Overseas Talents Hangzhou, Honorable Mention Award

2017 The 20th Annual Academic Conference of the Hong Kong Society of Mechanics, Best Paper Award

Papers

[1] Cong Zhao, Bingwei Lai, Yongzheng Xu, Yiping Wang and Haorong Dong*. MAK-Net: A Multi-Scale Attentive Kolmogorov–Arnold Network with BiGRU for Imbalanced ECG Arrhythmia Classification, Sensors, 2025, 25(13), 3928.

[2] Yunzhi Hua, Junhao Mai, Bingwei Lai, Rourou Su, Chengwei Ma, Jiayi Liu, Cong Zhao*, Qian Zhang, Changrui Liao and Yiping Wang. A Highly Stable Electrochemical Sensor based on Metal-Organic Frameworks/rGO Composite for Monitoring the Ammonium in Sweat, Biosensors, 2024, 14(12), 617. 

[3] Yunzhi Hua, Mingxiang Guan, Linzhong Xia, Yu Chen, Junhao Mai, Cong Zhao* and Changrui Liao, Highly Stretchable and Robust Electrochemical Sensor Based on 3D Graphene Oxide–CNT Composite for Detecting Ammonium in Sweat, Biosensors, 2023, 13(3), 409.

[4] Dan Liu, Zhihao Cai, Bozhe Li, Mengqiang Zou, Lichao Zhang, Yunzhi Hua, Junhao Mai, Cong Zhao*, Changrui Liao, Jun He, Xiaoyu Weng, Liwei Liu, Junle Qu, and Yiping Wang. Simultaneous Measurement of Humidity and Temperature based on Fiber-tip Microcantilever Cascaded with Fiber Bragg Grating, Optics Express, 2023, 31(5), 8738-8747.

[5] Cong Zhao, Dan Liu, Gaixia Xu, Jiangtao Zhou, Xuming Zhang, Changrui Liao and Yiping Wang. Recent Advances in Fiber Optic Sensors for Respiratory Monitoring, Optical Fiber Technology, 2022, 72, 103000.