News
Apr 26, 2024 - Master student Jason Sentosa matriculates to Duke-NUS Medical School MD program. Congratulations!
Apr 4, 2024 - PhD student Sam received the prestigious NSF GRFP award. This is the second major award he received in the first year. What a wonderful start of Sam's PhD.
Mar 25, 2024 - Undergraduate student Valeria Perez has been awarded the Alfred H. Gibeling Family Research Fellowship Award. Huge congratulations to Valeria and her graduate mentor Zhefeng.
Mar 18, 2024 - We received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award. Thanks for supporting our work, NSF!
Mar 11, 2024 - Congrats to Dr. Chen on his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure!
Mar 11, 2024 - Dr. Chen received the Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award. Huge congratulations!!
Feb 5, 2024 - BM2 lab PhD student Anthony Gunderman received the tenure track faculty position. Huge congratulations!!
Nov 13, 2023 - We received the Year-2 support from the IBB seed grant.
Oct 31, 2023 - We received a new grant from Georgia Research Alliance to investigate the liver interventional robot. This project is led by Sam Wilcox. Congratulations!
Oct 10, 2023 - We received NSF-NIFA NRI funding support. It is a collabroative project with Dr. Ye Zhao (GT ME), and Dr. Xin Zhang (MSU). We are excited to explore this new research direction.
Oct 7, 2023 - We received the dVRK from Intuitive. Excited to have the new research tool.
Aug 31, 2023 - Anthony's paper "Non-metallic MR-guided Concentric Tube Robot for Intracerebral Hemorrhage Evacuation" has been selected as the featured article by IEEE TBME. Congratulations.
Jul 13, 2023 - PhD student Anthony Gunderman received the prestigious Herbert P. Haley Fellowship. Congratulations.
Jul 11, 2023 - We received a thank a teacher note for BMED 6739, 2022 Fall semester. This is a recognition of our excellence in teaching.
Jul 6, 2023 - We received an internal grant to support research in continuum robot based engine inspection. Snake eyes: 3D scene reconstruction using a biologically-inspired continuum robot for engine inspection
Jun 27, 2023 - We received a new R01 grant. Thanks for supporting our research, NIH!
Jun 9, 2023 - We received the Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Best Student Paper Award from SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2023.
April 24, 2023 - We received the 2023 ASHS Outstanding Fruit Publication Award.
Oct 15, 2022 - We had a wonderful group BBQ at GLC. Thanks all for choosing our group and growing with the lab!
Sep 19, 2022 - We are inviting Dr. Steven Hetts for the BME seminar. Please attend the presentation in zoom Meeting ID: 974 2121 9805 | Password: 556677.
Sep 16, 2022 - We received a new R41 grant from NIH. This is in collaboration with JHU and Mirtech Inc.
Jun 30, 2022 - We received the McCamish Blue Sky Award. This is in collaboration with Emory collaborators Deqiang Qiu, John Oshinski, and Nick Boulis.
May 12, 2022 - We received the Georgia Tech EVPR grant to support the soft robot development.
May 25 2022 - We presented our soft robotic gripper at ICRA 2022 and our work is gaining attention in news articles, and ASME article.
February 6 2022 - We have three RAL papers accepted by ICRA 2022. Congratulations team!
December 18 2021 - We received a grant to support our soft robotic harvesting project. This is our first funded project at Georgia Institute of Technology. Thanks for the support from IRIM and GTRI.
December 2021 - We submitted a utility patent with JHU. This is our fourth patent with JHU collaborators since 2018.
November 22, 2021 - Mishek defended his master degree. Congratulations!!!
November 15, 2021 - Two new utility patent applications submitted. Thanks for the teams who contributed to the patent.
September, 2021 - We moved to the BME department at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory.
June 17, 2021 - hortidaily acknowledged our work using a soft robotic gripper for blackberry harvesting in an online article!
June 10, 2021 - We presented our soft robotic gripper to the Arkansas Blackberry Growers Association and an article was published in by the U of A and the Arkansas Democrat Gazette!
April 24, 2021 - An article on our soft robotic gripper was published in Italy!
April 12, 2021 - Our work on our soft robotic gripper has gained attention at the University of Georgia!
March 1, 2021 - Dr. Yue Chen will serve as Associate Editor for IEEE IROS 2021 and the program committee of ISMR 2021.
December 15, 2020 - Our $2.4M R01 proposal for developing a MRI-compatible concentric tube robot for intracerebral hemorrhage has been funded.
April 16, 2020 - Mishek Musa presented his work on a 5-DoF Liver Ablation Robot at the 11th National Image Guided Therapy (IGT) Workshop held virtually
March 2, 2020 - We received a 2-year grant from Oklahoma State University to explore robot-assisted HIFU for Veterinary and Human Chronic Disease Treatment.
December 1, 2019 - We received a 2-year NIH subcontract to develop Actively Shimmed Needles for Interventional MRI. A special thaks to Saikat Sengupta and NIBIB.
July 1, 2019 - We received a 1-year grant from Arkansas Bioscience Institute. This award will be used to develop a new approach for intracerebral hemorrhage treatment.
July 1, 2019 - Our lab received a 2-year grant from UARK chancellor innovation and collaboration.