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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

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Calvin Joyce

Research Engineer

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, UC San Diego

Interests: Exploratory Robots, Bioinspired Robotics, Medical Robotics
Projects: ARCSnake

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Curent Undergraduate Students

Michael Owens, 4th Year MATH, UCSD
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

NameYearCurrent PositionInstitution
Shan Lin 2021 - 2024 (postdoc)Assistant ProfessorArizona State University (ASU)
Fei Liu 2020 - 2024 (postdoc)Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
Ahmed Qureshi2017 - 2021 (Ph.D. student)Assistant ProfessorPurdue University
Jun Zhang 2016 - 2018 (postdoc)Associate ProfessorUniversity of Nevada, Reno (UNR)

Former Ph.D Students

NameGraduation YearCurrent PositionInstitution
Jingpei Lu2024Research ScientistIntuitive Surgical
Jacob Johnson2024Research ScientistBerkshire Grey
Dimitri Schreiber2023Startup FounderAiR Surgical
Florian RIchter2022Startup FounderArtemis
Ahmed Qureshi2021Assistant ProfessorPurdue University
Nikhil Das2021Machine Learning ScientistLytx

Former MS Students

NameGraduation YearCurrent Position
Jason Lim2024 Cor Medical Ventures
Alexander Luke2023Intuitive Surgical
Albert Liao2023Google
Kevin Lam2023Intuitive Surgical
Peter Gavrilov2022Nasa JPL / SpaceX
Zhaowei Yu2022Zoox
Yunhai Han2021Georgia Tech PhD student
Linjun Li2021TuSimple
Harleen Singh2021OnoSec
Renjie Zhu2020Amazon
Guosong Li2020Amazon
Hanpeng Jiang2020Qualcomm
Soumyarj Bose2020GRAIL
Brian Wilcox2020iRobot
Taylor Henderson2020Northrop Grumman
Sammie Wang2020ATX Networks
Andrew Saad2018Google

Former BS Students

Yaohui Chen, BS 2024 ECE --> MS at UCSD
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