Dr. Gu is a Professor of in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Dalhousie University. He is an internationally recognized researcher in control, robots and Biomedical Engineering with over 300 published conferences and journal papers. He has developed the world first miniature robotic device to enable natural movement of an eye implant with several patents to give the vision to bionic eye, which has potential to benefit over 250 million people visually impaired. His works on robotics vision, surgical robotics, bilateral operation, control theory have been published on distinguished IEEE journals and have been cited worldwide. Dr. Gu is the Fellow of EIC.