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Chaochao Shi is an emerging researcher specializing in surgical robotics, with a particular focus on vascular interventional surgery (VIS) robotic systems. Their work addresses critical challenges in minimally invasive procedures, including the development of master-slave robotic architectures, precision clamping mechanisms, and force feedback integration — innovations that aim to enhance both surgical accuracy and patient safety while reducing surgeons' exposure to harmful X-ray radiation. Shi's most notable contributions include the design and evaluation of a novel slave system for endovascular tele-surgery (2022, 11 citations), which tackled longstanding issues of unstable structures and imprecise power transmission in existing systems. Complementing this, their 2023 work on visual-based force feedback (9 citations) represents a meaningful step toward autonomous surgical control, addressing the limitations of current robot-assisted platforms that still require significant human intervention. Earlier foundational work on clamping mechanisms (2021, 6 citations) established reliable methods for fast, lossless catheter manipulation — a persistent challenge in the field. With a growing citation record totaling nearly 30 citations across four papers, Shi's research is carving an important niche in medical robotics, offering practical engineering solutions that bring fully autonomous vascular surgical systems closer to clinical reality.