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Jingda Tang is an innovative materials scientist and engineer whose research sits at the intersection of soft matter mechanics, smart materials, and biomedical robotics. His work has made significant contributions to our understanding of tough hydrogels, magnetic soft robotics, and stretchable material systems, establishing him as a rising authority in functional soft materials. Tang's early landmark study on fatigue fracture of tough hydrogels (2017, 297 citations) advanced fundamental knowledge of how these complex materials fail under cyclic loading — a critical insight for designing durable biomedical implants and soft devices. His subsequent investigations into adhesion between stretchable dissimilar materials (2015, 112 citations) provided practical tools for fabricating laminated systems essential to soft electronics and robotics. A defining thread of Tang's career is harnessing magnetic fields to engineer responsive, programmable materials. From shape-morphing hydrogels (2019, 160 citations) to 3D-printed magnetic arthropod millirobots (2021, 94 citations), his research has pushed the boundaries of untethered, remotely actuated soft robots for biomedical applications. His more recent explorations of self-sensing actuators, reprogrammable magnetization, and magnetothermal cancer therapy reveal a researcher continuously expanding the functional sophistication of these systems, with a cumulative citation record exceeding 800 citations.