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).
Ann Majewicz Fey
Associate Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
Associate Professor
University of Toronto Mississauga Department of Mathematical & Computational Sciences
Elif Ayvali
Principal Research Scientist
Johnson & Johnson
Robotics and Digital Solutions
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
We invite student participants to present their late-breaking research results in the form of posters in the workshop. We are specifically interested in work related to fundamental research at the intersection of mind, machine, and motor in the context of medical robotic systems.
Medical robotic systems are a unique class of robotic systems that are integrally tied to humans as both patients and providers. Future advances in medical robotics will center around the ability to more fully model the human user and integrate knowledge about human intent and motor manipulation with robotic controls, as well as to explore how the presence of the robotic system affects the mind and motor function of the human in the loop.
The two best posters will be presented with an award ($250 first place, $150 for honorable mention).
To do so, a PDF of the proposed poster should be submitted - this poster will be displayed on this website after acceptance. Students will also be required to present a short 2-min teaser presentation
All submissions will be judged based on relevance to the workshop topic, technical quality, and novelty. Authors of accepted proposals are expected to attend the workshop and to present their work during the short teaser session. First authors must be undergraduate or graduate students to be eligible for the award.
Poster draft submissions are due November 12th, 2021 (extended deadline).
Accepted posters will be notified of acceptance by Nov. 13th. Final presentation ready posters will be required by Nov. 15th and will be displayed on this website by Nov. 17th.
To submit a poster, email Ann.MajewiczFey@utexas.edu. The title of the email must be: ISMR_DiversityInMedRoboticsWorkshop_2021_Poster_(last name of first author)”.
BEST STUDENT POSTER AWARD: 1st place
Kaitlin Rabe
BEST STUDENT POSTER AWARD: Honorable Mention
Yana Sosnovskaya
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
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.
Chang Shi
Yi Zheng
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.
Supported by NSF# 2022356