Current Members
Professor Michael Yip
Director, Advanced Robotics and Controls Lab
Ph.D. Bioengineering, Stanford University, USA
M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada
B.Sc. Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada
Interests: Surgical Robots, Autonomy, Robotic Control and Motion Planning, Machine Learning, Convex Optimization, Mechatronics Design, Image-guidance and Augmented Reality, Haptics, Smart Actuators.
Email: yip@ucsd.edu | Office: 858.822.4778 | Personal Website | Google Scholar
Fei Liu
Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D. Automation, INSA de Lyon, Lyon, France.
M.Sc. Automation, INSA de Lyon, Lyon, France.
B.Sc. Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China.
Interests: Surgical Automation, Mathematical Modeling and Robotic Control, Haptic Teleoperation
Projects: Autonomy of Surgical Robots
Shan Lin
Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
B.E. Electronic and Information Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Jason Lim
Research Engineer
M.Sc. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego
B.Sc. Engineering Physics, University of Nevada Reno
Interests: Exploratory Robots, Bioinspired Robotics, Medical Robotics, Teleoperation
Projects: Motion scaling for teleoperation, ARCSnake
Jacob Johnson
Ph.D. Student
B. Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering with Minor in Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Guwahati
Interests: Machine learning, generative models, reinforcement learning, imitation learning.
Project: Data efficient reinforcement learning
Nikhil Uday Shinde
Ph.D. Student
B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Interests: Machine Learning, Task Automation, Reinforcement Learning, Surgical Robotics
Project: Autonomous Robotic Surgery
Yuheng Zhi
Ph.D. Student
B.S. in Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Interests: Machine Learning, Motion Planning, Computer Vision
Project: Learning-based Proxy Collision Checking
Jingpei Lu
Ph.D. Student
MS in ECE, UCSD
Interests: Computer Vision and Robotics
Project: Pose Estimation for Robot Manipulator, Surgical Perception Framework
Zih-Yun Chiu
Ph.D. Student
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
Interests: Reinforcement learning for robot control
Project: Surgical task automation
Elizabeth Peiros
Ph.D. Student
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Interests: Dynamics, Medical Robotics, Controls and Wearables
Project: ARCSnake, Rhino Cath, CAGE
Xiao Liang
First-Year Ph.D. Student
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Interests: Machine Learning, Medical Image Analysis, Physics Simulation
Shreya Saha
Ph.D. Student
Interests: Computer Vision and Scene Reconstruction
Yutong Zhang
M.Sc. Student
B.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego
Interests: Physics Simulation, Robotics, Robot Manipulation, Hiking
Project: Differentiable PBD simulation
Collaborators
Ryan Orosco, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery
Affiliate Professor Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgery Specialization
Interests: Robotic surgery. Flexible robotics. Semi-autonomous robotic surgery. Tissue modeling. Remote telesurgery. Using surgical robotics in new and creative ways. Translating engineering lab solutions to clinical robotic surgery
Projects: Semi-Autonomous Surgery. Telerobotic surgery. Tissue modeling.
Email: rorosco@health.ucsd.edu | Twitter: @DrOrosco | Personal Website | Google Scholar
Phil Weissbrod, MD
Director, UCSD Center for Voice and Swallowing
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Interests: Robotic surgery, Robotic Endoscopy
Project: Flexible Robot Endoscopy
Email: pweissbrod@ucsd.edu | Personal Website
Emily K. Funk, MD
Clinical & translational collaborator, Advanced Robotics and Controls Lab
Resident Physician, Department of Surgery
Interests: Innovative design and applications to head and neck surgery, robotic surgery, flexible robotics
Project: Semi-Autonomous Surgery, Flexible Robot Endoscopy
Email: ekfunk@ucsd.edu | Personal Website
Alexander Norbash, MD
Chair and Professor of Radiology
Clinical Interventional Neuroradiologist
UC San Diego, CA, USA.
Project: MRI Guided Robot
Email: norbash@bu.edu | Personal Website
Rebecca Theilmann, PhD
Director of MRI, Radiology Imaging Laboratory
Assistant Professor, Radiology
Project: MRI Guided Robot
Email: rtheilmann@ucsd.edu | Personal Website
Undergraduate Students
Calvin Joyce, 4th Year MAE, UCSD
Roger Nguyen, 4th Year MAE, UCSD
Anne-Marie Shui, 4th Year ECE, UCSD
Michael Owens, 4th Year MATH, UCSD
Mandy Cheung, 4th Year ECE, UCSD
Yaohui Chen, 4th Year ECE, UCSD
Albert Miao, 4th Year Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UCSD
Neelay Joglekar, 4th Year ECE, UCSD
Yuqing Shen, 3rd Year ECE, UCSD
Angela Liu, 3rd Year ECE, UCSD
Shunkai Yu, 3rd Year ECE, UCSD
Kyle Hu, 3rd Year ECE, UCSD
Sicong Duan, 3rd Year ECE, UCSD
Uday Kalra, 3rd Year CSE, UCSD
Siqiao Ruan, 2nd Year CSE, UCSD
Patrick Yeh, 2nd Year CSE, UCSD
Sara Wickenhiser, 2nd Year MAE, UCSD
Sumadhu Rubaiyat (Genie), 2nd Year MATH, UCSD
Alumni
Visiting Professors
Professor Amir Deghani, 2018 --> Technion University, Isreal
Former Postdocs
Jun Zhang, Postdoc 2016-2018 --> Assistant Professor at University of Nevada, Reno
Former Ph.D Students
Dimitri Schreiber, Ph.D., 2022 --> Founder, Stealth Startup
Florian Richter, Ph.D. 2022 --> Founder, Stealth Startup
Ahmed Qureshi, Ph.D., 2021 --> Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Nikhil Das, Ph.D., 2020 --> Machine Learning Scientist, Lytx
Former MS Students
Andrew Saad, MS 2018, ECE --> Qualcomm Robotics
Taylor Henderson, MS 2020, ECE --> at Northrop Grumman
Brian Wilcox, MS 2020, ECE --> iRobot
Soumyaraj Bose, MS 2020, CSME --> Italic
Hanpeng Jiang, MS 2020, ECE --> Qualcomm
Guosong Li, MS 2020, ECE
Renjie Zhu, MS 2020, ECE --> Amazon
Harleen Singh, MS 2021, ECE --> OncoSec
Linjun Li, MS 2021, ECE, --> TuSimple
Yunhai Han, MS 2021, MAE --> PhD at Georgia Institute of Technology
Zhaowei Liu, MS 2022, ECE
Peter Gavrilov, MS 2022, MAE --> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Hoi Man (Kevin) Lam, MS 2023, ECE --> Intuitive Surgical
Albert Liao, MS 2023, ECE --> Katomed
Alexander Luke, MS 2023, MAE--> Intuitive Surgical
Former BS Students
Naman Gupta, BS 2017 --> J&J / Auris Surgical Robotics
Zixuan Lan, BS 2018, MAE --> MS Stanford Univeresity
Winnie Kuang, BS 2018 --> NASA Ames Research Laboratories
Yifei Zhang, BS 2018, CS --> Google Daydream
Anthony Simeonov, BS 2019, MAE --> PhD at MIT
Mrinal Verghese, BS 2020, Mathematics --> PhD at CMU
Yinglong Miao, MS 2020, CS --> PhD at Rutgers University
Julie Yu, BS 2020, MAE
Lucas Jonasch, BS 2021, MAE --> Tesla
Kelvin Shen, BS 2021, ECE --> MS at CMU
Fei Lin, BS 2022, ECE --> MS at CMU
Bjorn Johnson, BS 2022 CSE --> Fulfil Solutions
Casey Price, BS 2022 CSE --> Google