AFFILIATIONS
- Department of Mechanical Engineering within the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland
- Director, Robotics, Automation, and Medical Systems (RAMS) Laboratory
- Maryland Nanocenter
- The Graduate Program in Bioengineering
RESEARCH
- Cell Manipulation
- Surgical Simulation - Needle Insertion
- Surgical Simulation - Soft Tissue Modeling
- Surgical Robotics - Breast Biopsy/RBA
- Surgical Robotics - MINIR project
- Compliant Grasping
CONFERENCES
- 2008 BioRob, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA, USA
- 2008 Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems
COMMITTEES
- Program Chair for BioRob2008
- Area Chair for Robotics: Science and Systems 2008
- Co-Chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Surgical Robotics
- IEEE-EMBS Technical Committee (TC) on Biorobotics
- Member of the Haptics Symposium Program Committee
JOURNALS
- Editorial Board for IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
- Editorial Board of ASME Journal of Medical Devices
- Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
- CFP Special Issue on Medical Robotics - International Journal of Robotics Research
FUNDING
CURRENT LAB MEMBERS
- Research Associate
- Graduate
- Kevin Lister
- Anand Pillarisetti
- Rajarshi Roy
- Yang Bo
- Ming-Yen Ho
- Chad Kessens
- Matthew Para
FORMER GRADUATE STUDENTS
- Dr. Christopher Kennedy
Ph.D. Thesis (2005): Enabling Technologies for Robotically-Assisted Sutureless Coronary Anastomosis
Presently Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital - Dr. Tie Hu
Ph.D. Thesis (2006): Reality-based Soft Tissue Probing: Experiments and Computational Model for Application to Minimally Invasive Surgery
Presently Post-Doctoral Fellow at Columbia University - Dr. Teeranoot Chanthasopeephan
Ph.D. Thesis (2006): Characterization of Soft Tissue Cutting for Haptic Display: Experiments and Computational Models
Presently faculty at King Mongut University, Thailand - Dr. Gregory Tholey
Ph.D. Thesis: A Teleoperative Haptic Feedback Framework for Computer-Aided Minimally Invasive Surgery
Presently at Conferno Solutions, King of Prussia, PA, USA
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