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Desai earns 2024 IEEE RAS George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation
Posted April 29, 2024

 

 

Jaydev Desai, professor and associate chair for undergraduate studies in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 IEEE RAS George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation. Sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), the honor recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the mission of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

 

headshot photo of professor Jaydev Desai

Jaydev Desai, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies

 

Desai was selected for conducting significant for foundational research in Medical Robotics and Swarm Robotics and providing service in Society Management.

Desai’s research focuses on medical robotixs from the micro to meso to macro scale, specifically in the areas of image-guided surgical robotics, haptic interfaces for robot-assisted surgery, reality-based soft-tissue modeling for surgical simulation, model-based teleoperation in robot-assisted surgery, and cell manipulation.

Honorees will be recognized at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation on May 13.

 

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Kelly Petty   
Communications
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering

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