| May 01, 2025 |
đź“Ł I am co-organizing a workshops at International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR):
Open-Source Software for Intelligent Image-Guided Medical Robots.
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| Mar 01, 2025 |
🎓 I have been awarded tenure and promoted to the rank of associate professor!
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| Oct 01, 2024 |
đź“Ł I am organizing a workshop at IROS 2024 on the topic of Machine Learning for Medical Robotics.
Workshop website.
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| Sep 01, 2024 |
 I received a new NSF award together with my WPI colleagues Cagdas Onal and Berk Calli. The goal of this project is to develop a highly flexible robotic arm called CoBRA (Continuum Bioinspired Robotic Assistant) to help people with daily tasks and improve their independent living skills.
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| Jun 01, 2024 |
đź“Ł I am organizing a workshop at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics on the Topic
of bio-inspired medical robotics: Workshop website.
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| May 01, 2024 |
đź“Ł I am organizing two workshops at International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR):
Machine Learning with the da Vinci Research Kit and The Third Holistic Forum of Medical Robotic Junior Professors: From Rehabilitation to Surgical Robots.
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| Sep 29, 2023 |
đź“Ł I am on parental leave throughout the Fall 2023 semester. During this time I will
have reduced opportunities to check my inbox, so if you write me an email, there
may be some delay in my response. I appreciate your patience. For urgent inquiries, please
contact rbe@wpi.edu.
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| May 05, 2023 |
I received the NSF CAREER award! Over the next five years, my lab will look into energy-based tool-tissue interactions to help build the next generation of surgical robots.
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| Apr 13, 2023 |
Our paper entitled Benefits of Side-Firing Optical Fibers in Endoscopic Laser Treatment of the Larynx was
featured on the cover page of the May 2023 issue of the Laryngoscope!
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| Feb 15, 2023 |
The paper “Laparoscopic photoacoustic imaging system integrated with the da Vinci Surgical System,”
of which I am co-author, won the Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award at SPIE Medical Imaging 2023!
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| Oct 01, 2022 |
đź“Ł I am organizing a workshop at IROS 2022 on the benefits and risks of Machine Learning in Medical Robotics.
Workshop website
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| Apr 04, 2022 |
đź“ş I was a guest on Health Matters, a WCCA show
produced by the Worcester District Medical Society.
The host, Dr. Lynda Young, and I talked
about surgical robotics innovation at WPI and beyond.
Watch the recording here.
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| Apr 04, 2022 |
My PhD student Nicholas Pacheco was awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP).
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| Apr 01, 2022 |
đź“Ł I have been invited to give a workshop talk at International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR) in Atlanta, GA. The talk will be entitled Lasers + Surgical Robots: Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of Its Parts?
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| Jan 31, 2021 |
My students Isabelle Chan, Jesse d’Almeida, and Alex Chiluisa won the best student paper
award in the Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling track
at SPIE Medical Imaging 2021, with their paper entitled
“On the Merits of Using Angled Fiber Tips in Office-based Laser
Surgery of the Vocal Folds”.
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| Dec 17, 2020 |
đź“Ł I wrote a focus article for Science Robotics entitled
“Bringing the light inside the body to perform better surgery.” The
article will appear on the January 2021 issue of the journal.
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| Oct 14, 2020 |
📣 I will give an invited talk entitled “On the role of autonomy in
robot-assisted laser surgery” during the upcoming IROS 2020 workshop
entitled Autonomous System in Medicine: Current Challenges in Design, Modeling, Perception, Control and Applications.
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| May 01, 2020 |
I was awarded a $430k NIH grant for the project proposal
Flexible Steerable Laser Probe for Office-based Laryngeal Interventions.
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| Dec 16, 2019 |
📣 I gave an invited talk entitled “Combining robotics and machine intelligence
to enable advanced treatment modalities in the head and neck”
at the monthly meeting of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (Boston Chapter).
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| Nov 01, 2019 |
I have been invited to serve on the advisory board of the
Office of Undergraduate Research at WPI.
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| Jun 20, 2019 |
đź“Ł I gave invited talks at the
3rd World Congress on Endoscopic Ear Surgery on the
role of robotics in endoscopic ear surgery and
advances in endoscopic imaging of the middle ear.
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| May 09, 2019 |
đź“Ł I have been invited to give a talk at Massachusetts
Eye and Ear Infirmary. The talk is entitled “Combining robotics and AI to enable
advanced treatment modalities in the head and neck.”
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| May 09, 2019 |
My students Kevin O’Brien, Cory Brolliar, Zach Boyer, and Ben Mart were finalists
for the Three in Five competition at the Design of Medical devices
Conference 2019, with their paper entitled
Towards flexible steerable instruments for office-based laryngeal surgery.
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| Mar 09, 2018 |
đź“Ł I have been invited to give a talk at the
University of New Hampshire. The talk is entitled “Rise of the machines in the
Operating Room: Using AI to build smarter, more dexterous surgical robots.”
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| Aug 14, 2017 |
  I have started my new position at Assistant Professor at WPI!
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