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Shilei Dai is pioneering the frontier of stretchable bioelectronics and neuromorphic computing, engineering soft, skin-like devices that can sense, process, and even "feel" like biological systems. His research focuses on three transformative areas: stretchable pressure sensors, organic synaptic transistors, and neuromorphic circuits for on-body edge computing. Dai’s most impactful contribution is a stretchable, strain-unperturbed pressure sensor (2021, 354 citations) that eliminates motion interference, enabling precise tactile monitoring on human skin, prosthetic limbs, and soft robots—a critical breakthrough for wearable health tech and human-machine interfaces. He also developed organic high-temperature synaptic phototransistors (2023, 48 citations) that operate reliably beyond 121°C, advancing energy-efficient neuromorphic computing for harsh environments like biomedical implants or aerospace. His work on stretchable neuromorphic transistors (2023, 28 citations) emulates pain perception and sensitization, mimicking biological nociceptors to enable robots to detect and avoid harmful stimuli. Most recently, Dai demonstrated large-scale stretchable neuromorphic circuits (2024) for on-body sensory data processing, reducing reliance on external computing. With over 430 citations across his top papers, Dai is shaping a future where electronics seamlessly integrate with living systems, merging sensing, memory, and computation in flexible, intelligent form factors.