Sylvain Martel is at the cutting edge of nanotechnology, creating machines and robots with components the size of a nanometer -or one billionth of a meter. Working at the intersection of technology and medicine, Dr. Martel has created novel platforms for remote surgeries and cardiac mapping systems and has developed new types of brain implants that can decode neuronal activities. Dr. Martel’s research group is credited with the first demonstration of the controlled navigation of an untethered object in the blood vessel of a living animal. He leads a world-renowned interdisciplinary team pushing the boundaries of navigable therapeutic agents and interventional platforms for cancer therapy. Professor Martel is the Director of the NanoRobotics Laboratory at Polytechnique Montréal, holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Medical Nanorobotics, is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of Engineers Canada as well as IEEE Fellow and is Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Micro-Nanorobotics and Automation.