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

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.

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Interests: Surgical Automation, Mathematical Modeling and Robotic Control, Haptic Teleoperation

Projects: Autonomy of Surgical Robots

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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​

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

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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

Ph.D. Student

B.S. in Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Interests: Machine Learning, Motion Planning, Computer Vision

Project: Learning-based Proxy Collision Checking

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Ph.D. Student

MS in ECE, UCSD

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Interests: Computer Vision and Robotics

Project: Pose Estimation for Robot Manipulator, Surgical Perception Framework

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Ph.D. Student

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University

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Interests: Reinforcement learning for robot control

Project: Surgical task automation by reinforcement learning

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Ph.D. Student

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

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Interests: Dynamics, Medical Robotics, Controls and Wearables

Project: ARCSnake, Rhino Cath, CAGE

Incoming Ph.D. Student

B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington

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Interests: Machine Learning,  Medical Image Analysis, Physics Simulation

M.Sc. Student

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, UCSD

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Interests: Mechanical Design, Systems Engineering, Surgical Robotics, Mobile Robots

Project: ARCSnake, MRI-Compatible Robotics

M.Sc. Student

B.Sc. Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, USA

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Interests: Skateboarding, Swimming, Computer Vision and Robotics

Project: Suture Needle detection and tracking