People

Below is a list of students I work with. For PhD students, people involved in the project (as advisors or co-advisors) are noted as well. In France, research master students typically do a 5-6 months full-time internship in labs. 

Phd Students

• Guillaume Lods (since Oct 2021): novel control and planning algorithms for continuum robots. Collaboration with Florent Nageotte and Bernard Bayle. (MACROS project)

Master Students

• No master students at the moment

Postdocs

• Azad Artinian (since April 2024): continuum robot design optimization. Collaboration with Mohammed Taha Chikhaoui from TIMC-IMAG in Grenoble (CAMI Labex funding). 

Former PhD Students

• Fernando Gonzalez Herrera (February 2020 - September 2024): task anticipation for coordinated control of multi-arm continuum robots. Collaboration with Florent Nageotte and Michel de Mathelin (Strasbourg), and with Gianni Borghesan and Joris de Schutter at KU Leuven (ATLAS project)

• Sestini Luca (Dec 2019 - June 2023): Deep learning methods for tool-tissue interaction identification in endoscopy. Collaboration with Nicolas Padoy in Strasbourg, and with Elena de Momi at Politecnico di Milano (ATLAS project). Now creating a startup. Best PhD award from University of Strasbourg 

• Matthias Tummers (Oct 2019 - April 2023): design of novel continuum robot architecures. Collaboration with Jocelyne Troccaz and Mohammed Taha Chikhaoui from TIMC-IMAG in Grenoble (CAMI Labex). Now assistant professor at INP Grenoble. 2nd prize for the Best French Robotics PhD in 2023.

• Giuqiu Liao (Oct 2019 - January 2023): tissue identification and mapping in endoscopy. Collaboration with Michalina Gora and Florent Nageotte in Strasbourg, and with Paolo Fiorini at Univ. Verona (ATLAS project). Now postdoc at University of Pennsylvania

• Sujit Kumar Sahu (April 2019 - February 2023): mechatronic design of novel sensors for endoluminal navigation. Collaboration with Pierre Renaud in Strasbourg, and with Arianna Menciassi at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa (ATLAS project). Now postdoc at the TeCIP lab, Biorobotics Institute, SSSA Pisa. 

• Jorge Lazo (November 2019 - February 2023): image-based identification and segmentation of luminal structures in ureteroscopy. Collaboration with Michel de Mathelin in Strasbourg, and with Elena de Momi at Politecnico di Milano (ATLAS project). Now researcher at AI Sweden (eye for AI program).

Former Master Students

• Chiara Cignolini (2023, with Hadrien Courtecuisse): Advanced modeling for tendon-driven continuum robots. Engineer at Needleye Robotics Srl

• Chloé Lindingre (2023): Experimental validation of concentric tube robot modeling. Continued at ICube as PhD student.

• Edgard Weissrock (2022, with Florent Nageotte): Prediction of endoscope movements in robotic endoluminal surgery. Now pursuing MD studies. 

• Denis N'Chot (2019): Compliance modeling for continuum robots. Continued with a PhD at Institut Pascal, France

• Cristian Da Costa Rocha (2018, with Nicolas Padoy): Deep learning methods for Self-supervised Surgical Tool Segmentation. Results published at ICRA2019. Now CTO and data scientist at Laura, Brazil.

• Valentin Bordoux (2018, with Florent Nageotte): Combining optical flow and differential kinematics for automated labelling of continuum robots in endoscopy. Results presented at CRAS 2019 and published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI. PhD student at Wageningen University.