Yu Sun is a Professor, a Tier I Canada Research Chair and founding Director of the Robotics Institute at the University of Toronto. His pivotal contributions fall at the intersection of engineering and medicine, including robotic cell surgery for clinical in vitro fertilization and nano-surgery for glioblastoma. He has published 7 books and 270 journal papers, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. Automation Science and Engineering and an editorial board member of the AAAS journal, Science Robotics. He has been elected Fellow of RSC, CAE, IEEE, ASME, AAAS, AIMBE, NAI, CSME, and EIC for his significant academic, clinical and industrial impacts.