Mingyen Ho

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EDUCATION

• PhD., Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland - College Park, MD; Sep. 2008 - Present
• M.S., Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Sep. 2003 - Jun. 2005
• B.S., Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Sep. 1999 - Jun. 2003

CURRENT RESEARCH

• Surgical Robotics - Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Intracranial Robot (MINIR)

PUBLICATIONS

• Mingyen Ho and Jaydev P. Desai, “Characterization of Antagonistic SMA Spring Actuators for use in a MRI-Compatible Intracranial Robot”, In ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference - DSCC 2012, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, October 17-19, 2012.
• Mingyen Ho, Alan B. McMillan, J. Marc Simard, Rao Gullapalli, and Jaydev. P. Desai, “Toward a Meso-Scale SMA-Actuated MRI-Compatible Neurosurgical Robot”, IEEE Transaction on Robotics, vol. 28, no. 1, pages 213-222, 2012.[Full Text]
• Elif Ayvali, Chia-Pin Liang, Mingyen Ho, Yu Chen, and Jaydev P. Desai, “Towards a Discretely Actuated Steerable Cannula for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures”, The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 31, no. 5, pages 588-603, 2012.[Full Text]
• Mingyen Ho and Jaydev P. Desai, “Towards the Development of a SMA-Actuated MRI-Compatible Tendon-Driven Neurosurgical Robot”, In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation - ICRA 2012, Saint Paul, MN, May 14-18, 2012.[Full Text]
• Arvind Ananthanarayanan, Leicester Ehrlich, Mingyen Ho, Jaydev P. Desai and Satyandra K. Gupta, “Embedding Shape Memory Alloy Actuators in Miniature Articulating Polymer Structures Using In-Mold Assembly”, In North American Manufacturing Research Conference-NAMRC 40, University of Notre Dame, IN, June 4-8, 2012.
• Mingyen Ho and Jaydev P. Desai, “Design of a MRI-Compatible Tendon-Driven Neurosurgical Robot”, In ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference - DSCC 2011, Arlington, VA, October 31-November 2, 2011. [Full Text]
• Mingyen Ho, Michael Koltz, J. Marc Simard, Rao Gullapalli, Jaydev P. Desai, “Towards a MR Image-Guided SMA-Actuated Neurosurgical Robot”, In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation - ICRA 2011, Shanghai, China, May 9-13, 2011. [Full Text]
• Elif Ayvali, Mingyen Ho, and Jaydev P. Desai, “A Novel Discretely Actuated Steerable Probe for Percutaneous Procedures”, In 12th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics - ISER 2010, New Delhi, India, December 18-21, 2010.
• Mingyen Ho and Jaydev P. Desai, “Towards a MRI-Compatible Meso-Scale SMA-Actuated Robot using PWM Control”, In Third IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics - BioRob 2010, Tokyo, Japan, September 26-29, 2010. [Full Text]
• Mingyen Ho, and Jaydev P. Desai, “Characterization of SMA Actuator for Application in Robotic Neurosurgery”, In 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC 2009, Minneapolic, MN, September 2-6, 2009. [Full Text]