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Atlanta, GA | Posted: February 17, 2016
Walter Rich
Communications Manager
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Brings medical robotics and robot-assisted surgery expertise
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Jaydev Desai, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and “BME Distinguished Faculty Fellow”.Jaydev Desai, Ph.D., is joining the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory this summer (2016) as Professor of Biomedical Engineering with the title of “BME Distinguished Faculty Fellow." His research interests include image-guided surgical robotics, reality-based soft-tissue modeling for surgical simulation, grasping, haptics, and micro-scale cell and tissue characterization.
He is currently a professor and director of the Robotics, Automation, and Medical Systems (RAMS) Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). Prior to joining UMCP, he was an associate professor at Drexel University. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University from 1998 to 1999.
He is a recipient several NIH R01 awards, NSF CAREER award, and also the lead inventor on the “Outstanding Invention of 2007 in Physical Science Category” at UMCP. He is a recipient of the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. In 2011, he was an invited speaker at the National Academy of Sciences “Distinctive Voices” seminar series on the topic of “Robot-Assisted Neurosurgery” at the Beckman Center. He was also invited to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s 2011 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Robotics Research (JMRR) and the Editor-in-Chief of the forthcoming multi-volume major reference work, tentatively entitled: Encyclopedia of Medical Robotics. He is also a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
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