Diversity in Medical Robotics

The Workshop on Diversity in Medical Robotics brings together experts from academia, industry, and clinical practice for a one-day event. The goal of this workshop is to highlight the contributions of women and underrepresented individuals to the field of medical robotics and inspire the next generation of medical roboticists. The speakers provide a comprehensive outlook on medical robotics by covering research from bench to bedside and across a wide spectrum of applications within medical robotics. From a professional development perspective, this workshop aims to highlight unique career paths and challenges at various stages through the inclusion of a diverse set of speakers. This workshop will provide an opportunity for networking among the participants to foster collaboration and to create mentorship opportunities for junior researchers. This will be accomplished through interactive poster sessions during the coffee breaks and lunch, presented by student attendees. Support for this workshop has been provided by the National Science Foundation, award #2022356.

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Meeting URL: https://bluejeans.com/452651855/1929?src=join_info

Meeting ID: 452 651 855

Participant Passcode: 1929

STUDENTS: See call for posters below! DEADLINE FOR POSTER SUBMISSIONS: November, 12th, 2021 (extended deadline).

09:00 – 9:15 : Welcome - Ann Majewicz Fey, Associate Professor, UT Austin

09:15 – 9:45 : Anne Silverman , Associate Professor, Colorado School of Mines

9:45 – 10:00 : Student Poster Teasers

10:00 – 10:30 : Coffee break + Online Poster Viewing

10:30 – 11:00 : Hedyeh Rafii-Tari, Principal Research Scientist, Auris Health

11:00 – 11:30 : Marcia O’Malley, Professor , Rice University

11:30 – 12:00 : Franziska Mathis-Ullrich , Assistant Professor , Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

12:00 – 13:30 : Lunch break

13:30 – 14:00 : Aleksandra Popovic , Department Head, Philips Research, Philips

14:00 – 14:30 : Jessica Burgner-Kahrs. Associate Professor, University of Toronto

14:30 – 15:00 : May Liu , Principal Medical Research Scientist, Intuitive Surgical

15:00 – 15:30 : Coffee break + Online Poster Viewing

15:30 – 16:00 : Colette Abah , Ph.D. Candidate, Vanderbilt University

16:00 – 17:00 : Panel Discussion

BEST STUDENT POSTER AWARD: 1st place

BEST STUDENT POSTER AWARD: Honorable Mention

My name is Yana Sosnovskaya, I'm currently a Ph.D. student at the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department in University of Washington. I work at the UW Biorobotics Lab with Professor Blake Hannaford on the Smart Grasper Project (multi-sensorized motorized surgical grasper). My research interests are surgical robotics, biomedical instrumentation, sensor fusion and perception engineering. Over the course of my studies, I have completed three internships, in robot and drone control, sensor fusion, and multi-sensor calibration techniques, testing SLAM algorithms. Prior to joining the UW Biorobotics Lab, I have worked as an Electrical Engineer for a Russian Navy Contractor in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Manuel Retana received an B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Nevada, Reno in 2018, and a M.S. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University 2020. Retana is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX in the ARTS lab. Additionally, Retana works as Environmental Control and Life Support Systems Flight Hardware Lab Manager at NASA JSC in Houston, TX. His research interests include surgical robot autonomy and deep space surgeon-in-the-loop robotic surgery.

Yi Zheng received the B.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi, China in 2015, and the M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University, Boston, MA in 2017. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. His research interest lies in surgical training, surgical robotics, and haptics.