People
Professor Michael Yip
Director, Advanced Robotics and Controls Lab
Ph.D. Bioengineering, Stanford University, USA
M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada
B.Sc. Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada
Email: yip@ucsd.edu | Office: 858.822.4778 | Personal Website | Google Scholar
Neelay Joglekar
Research Engineer
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego
Projects: Surgical Automation, Robot Manipulation
Calvin Joyce
Research Engineer
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, UC San Diego
Interests: Exploratory Robots, Bioinspired Robotics, Medical Robotics
Projects: ARCSnake
Nikhil Uday Shinde
Ph.D. Student
B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Interests: Machine Learning, Task Automation, Reinforcement Learning, Surgical Robotics
Project: Autonomous Robotic Surgery
Yuheng Zhi
Ph.D. Student
B.S. in Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Interests: Machine Learning, Motion Planning, Computer Vision
Project: Learning-based Proxy Collision Checking
Zih-Yun Chiu
Ph.D. Student
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
Interests: Surgical Robotics, Robotic Manipulation, Robot Learning
Project: Surgical Task Automation
Elizabeth Peiros
Ph.D. Student
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Interests: Dynamics, Medical Robotics, Controls and Wearables
Project: ARCSnake, Rhino Cath, CAGE
Xiao Liang
Ph.D. Student
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Interests: Machine Learning, Medical Image Analysis, Physics Simulation
Soofiyan Atar
Ph.D. Student
M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle
B.Tech. Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Univerity of Mumbai
Interests: Robot Learning, Bimanipulation, Grasping, Computer Vision
Project: Metric Depth Estimation
Lucas(Zekai) Liang
Ph.D. Student
Interests: Machine Learning, Robotics Perception
Project: Robot Pose Estimation, Surgical Instruments Tracking
Pradhit Ongole
M.S. Student
B.E in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani
Interests: Surgical Robotics
Project: Tissue Manipulation
Tristin Xie
M.S. Student
B.S. Computer Science B.S. Applied Mathematics at UC San Diego
Interests: Computer Vision and Robotics
Project: Robot Pose Estimation
Curent Undergraduate Students
Jerry Gong, 4th Year CSE, UCSD
William Harris, 4th Year MAE, UCSD
Derek Chen, 4th Year ECE, UCSD
Charvi Shukla, 4th Year MATH, UCSD
Yijie He, 4th Year ECE, UCSD
Yuqing Shen, 3rd Year ECE, UCSD
Angela Liu, 3rd Year ECE, UCSD
Shunkai Yu, 3rd Year ECE, UCSD
Kyle Hu, 3rd Year ECE, UCSD
Sicong Duan, 3rd Year ECE, UCSD
Uday Kalra, 3rd Year CSE, UCSD
Ishan Duriseti, 3rd Year MAE, UCSD
Rana Singh, 3rd Year ECE, UCSD
Siqiao Ruan, 2nd Year CSE, UCSD
Patrick Yeh, 2nd Year CSE, UCSD
Sara Wickenhiser, 2nd Year MAE, UCSD
Sumadhu Rubaiyat (Genie), 2nd Year MATH, UCSD
Vandita Jain, 2nd Year MATH, UCSD
Emma Huang, 2nd Year ECE, UCSD
Faculty Alumni
| Name | Year | Current Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shan Lin | 2021 - 2024 (postdoc) | Assistant Professor | Arizona State University (ASU) |
| Fei Liu | 2020 - 2024 (postdoc) | Assistant Professor | University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) |
| Ahmed Qureshi | 2017 - 2021 (Ph.D. student) | Assistant Professor | Purdue University |
| Jun Zhang | 2016 - 2018 (postdoc) | Associate Professor | University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) |
Former Ph.D Students
| Name | Graduation Year | Current Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jingpei Lu | 2024 | Research Scientist | Intuitive Surgical |
| Jacob Johnson | 2024 | Research Scientist | Berkshire Grey |
| Dimitri Schreiber | 2023 | Startup Founder | AiR Surgical |
| Florian RIchter | 2022 | Startup Founder | Artemis |
| Ahmed Qureshi | 2021 | Assistant Professor | Purdue University |
| Nikhil Das | 2021 | Machine Learning Scientist | Lytx |
Former MS Students
| Name | Graduation Year | Current Position |
|---|---|---|
| Jason Lim | 2024 | Cor Medical Ventures |
| Alexander Luke | 2023 | Intuitive Surgical |
| Albert Liao | 2023 | |
| Kevin Lam | 2023 | Intuitive Surgical |
| Peter Gavrilov | 2022 | Nasa JPL / SpaceX |
| Zhaowei Yu | 2022 | Zoox |
| Yunhai Han | 2021 | Georgia Tech PhD student |
| Linjun Li | 2021 | TuSimple |
| Harleen Singh | 2021 | OnoSec |
| Renjie Zhu | 2020 | Amazon |
| Guosong Li | 2020 | Amazon |
| Hanpeng Jiang | 2020 | Qualcomm |
| Soumyarj Bose | 2020 | GRAIL |
| Brian Wilcox | 2020 | iRobot |
| Taylor Henderson | 2020 | Northrop Grumman |
| Sammie Wang | 2020 | ATX Networks |
| Andrew Saad | 2018 |
Former BS Students
Mandy Cheung, BS 2024 ECE --> MS at UCSD
Albert Miao, BS 2024 Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute --> PhD at Cambridge
Roger Nguyen, BS 2024 MAE --> Space Force
Anne-Marie Shui, BS 2024 ECE --> MS at UCSD
Casey Price, BS 2022 CSE --> Google
Bjorn Johnson, BS 2022 CSE --> Fulfil Solutions
Fei Lin, BS 2022, ECE --> PhD at Caltech
Kelvin Shen, BS 2021, ECE --> MS at CMU
Lucas Jonasch, BS 2021, MAE --> Tesla
Julie Yu, BS 2020, MAE
Yinglong Miao, MS 2020, CS --> PhD at Rutgers University
Mrinal Verghese, BS 2020, Mathematics --> PhD at CMU
Anthony Simeonov, BS 2019, MAE --> PhD at MIT
Yifei Zhang, BS 2018, CS --> Google Daydream
Winnie Kuang, BS 2018 --> NASA Ames Research Laboratories
Zixuan Lan, BS 2018, MAE --> MS Stanford University
Naman Gupta, BS 2017 --> J&J / Auris Surgical Robotics