Lum Guo Zhan received his B.Eng. with first class honors in mechanical engineering from Nanyang Technological University in 2010. He went on to pursue his postgraduate studies in mechanical engineering under the dual Ph.D. program of Nanyang Technological University and Carnegie Mellon University. He received his M.Sc. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2015, and dual Ph.D. degrees in 2016. From May 2016 to December 2017, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany. During his Ph.D. and post-doctoral phases, he has worked on several research projects pertaining to soft miniature robots, magnetic micro-robots, high precision micro/nano-positioners, and also highly reversible and switchable adhesives. To date, he has published eight journal papers, including multi-disciplinary journals such as Nature, PNAS and Advanced Materials. One of his works was nominated for the best paper award at the 2014 Robotics: Science and Systems conference. His work on miniature soft robots, and highly reversible and switchable adhesives have also attracted substantial attention from the international media.