Team

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.

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

Projects: Autonomy of Surgical Robots
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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
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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
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Jingpei Lu

Ph.D. Student

MS in ECE, UCSD

Interests: Computer Vision and Robotics
Project: Pose Estimation for Robot Manipulator, Surgical Perception Framework
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Zih-Yun Chiu

Ph.D. Student

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University

Interests: Reinforcement learning for robot control

Project: Surgical task automation
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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

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