Wang Shuxin (1966.09- ), male, expert in special machinery design and manufacturing, a native of Xuanhua, Hebei Province, graduated from Tianjin University in 1994 with a doctorate degree. He is currently President of Chongqing University and Deputy Secretary of CPC CQU Committee, and also Director of the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Mechanism Theory and Equipment Design (Tianjin University), and Head of the Innovative Research Group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China for the Mechanism Theory and Technological Basis of High-end Equipments.

He has long been engaged in research on flexible mechanism system and its engineering application in marine equipment, medical equipment and manufacturing equipment. He successfully developed the “Micro Hand” minimally invasive surgical robot system, which was the first robot system in China to be given the endoscopic surgery robot registration certificate, and the “Petrel” underwater gliders, which set the world record of underwater working depth of 10,619 meters. He is holder of more than 100 national invention patents, three US patents and one European patent, and has published more than 100 academic papers. He has been awarded two second prizes of the National Technological Invention Award, one second prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award, and one first prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award. He has been awarded the National Advanced Individual in Teacher’s Morality, China Youth May Fourth Medal, and National Innovation Pioneering Award; and in 2021, he was honored with the ASME DED Leonardo da Vinci Award in the United States.

He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2021.