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
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
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 by reinforcement learning
Hoi Man Lam (Kevin)
M.Sc. Student
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, UCSD
Interests: Mechanical Design, Systems Engineering, Surgical Robotics, Mobile Robots
Project: ARCSnake, MRI-Compatible Robotics
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
Jun Zhang, Postdoc 2016-2018 --> Assistant Professor at University of Nevada, Reno
Undergraduate Students
Bjorn Johnson, 4th Year CSE, UCSD
Yizhi Yuan, 4th Year CSE, UCSD
Yutong Zhang, 4th Year CSE, UCSD
Jonathan Zamora, 4th Year CSE, 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
Casey Price, 2nd Year CSE, UCSD
Siqiao Ruan, 2nd Year CSE, UCSD
Neelay Joglekar, 2nd Year ECE, UCSD
Patrick Yeh, 2nd Year CSE, 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
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
