| Mar 11, 2026 | Our paper TrajPred: Trajectory-Conditioned Joint Embedding Prediction for Surgical Instrument-Tissue Interaction Recognition in Vision-Language Models is available online. |
| Mar 05, 2026 | Our paper Detection of Fragmentation While Dusting During Retrograde Intrarenal Laser Lithotripsy: A Novel Computer Vision and Perception Pipeline has been published in Lasers in Medical Science. |
| Jan 31, 2026 | Our paper TwinTrack: Bridging Vision and Contact Physics for Real-Time Tracking of Unknown Dynamic Objects is accepted by ICRA 2026. |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Our paper PalpAid: Multimodal Pneumatic Tactile Sensor for Tissue Palpation is accepted by RoboSoft 2026. |
| Nov 10, 2025 | Our paper SurgXBench: Explainable Vision-Language Model Benchmark for Surgery is accepted by WACV 2026. |
| Oct 07, 2025 | I am appointed as an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Our paper 3D Rendering of Cystoscopy Video Footage: A Novel Method Utilizing Neural Radiance Field Processing is accepted by Cureus. |
| May 19, 2025 | We organize the Workshop on the Evolving Landscape of Surgical Robotics (ELSR) at ICRA 2025, Atlanta, USA. 🎙️ I give a talk on recent research from my lab, talk title: Intelligent, Multimodal Surgical Perception. |
| Jan 27, 2025 | Our paper CtRNet-X: Camera-to-Robot Pose Estimation in Real-World Conditions Using a Single Camera is accepted by ICRA 2025. |
| Jan 01, 2025 | 📢 My lab - Medical Automation, Robotics and General Intelligence Lab (MARGIN Lab) - is established! Subscribe to our YouTube channel for future updates! |
| Oct 28, 2024 | Our paper BASED: Bundle-Adjusting Surgical Endoscopic Dynamic Video Reconstruction Using Neural Radiance Fields is accepted by WACV 2025. |
| Oct 20, 2024 | Our paper Efficient Data-Driven Joint-Level Calibration of Cable-Driven Surgical Robots is accepted by npj robotics. |
| Jun 30, 2024 | Our paper SuPerPM: A Surgical Perception Framework Based on Deep Point Matching Learned from Physical Constrained Simulation Data is accepted by IROS 2024. |
| Jun 17, 2024 | Our paper Reducing Annotating Load: Active Learning with Synthetic Images in Surgical Instrument Segmentation is accepted by Medical Image Analysis. |
| Jun 05, 2024 | 🏆 Our paper HemoSet: The First Blood Segmentation Dataset for Automation of Hemostasis Management win the Best Student Paper Award at ISMR 2024. |
| Jun 03, 2024 | 🎙️ I am invited to present at ISMR 2024 Workshop on Machine Learning with the da Vinci Research Kit. Talk title: Bringing Deep Learning to Surgical Scene Reconstruction and Tracking. |
| Apr 08, 2024 | Our paper BAA-NGP: Bundle-Adjusting Accelerated Neural Graphics Primitives is accepted by 7th International Workshop on Visual Odometry and Computer Vision Applications Based on Location Clues. |
| Mar 30, 2024 | The paper we coauthored - DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset - is accepted by RSS 2024. |
| Jan 29, 2024 | Our papers Tracking Snake-Like Robots in the Wild Using Only a Single Camera, AnyOKP: One-Shot and Instance-Aware Object Keypoint Extraction with Pretrained ViT and Real-to-Sim Deformable Object Manipulation: Optimizing Physics Models with Residual Mappings for Robotic Surgery are accepted by ICRA 2024. 🏆 We are also coauthor of Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models (Best Conference Paper Award at ICRA 2024). |
| Oct 05, 2023 | 🎙️ I am invited to present at Data vs. Model in Medical Robotics @ IROS 2023. Talk title: Employing Robust, Semantic Perception for Endoscopic Tissue Identification, Tracking, and Reconstruction. |
| Oct 01, 2023 | 📢 My research is reported in the October 2023 issue of Computer Vision News. |
| Oct 01, 2023 | We present our paper Semantic-SuPer: Employing Semantic Perception for Endoscopic Tissue Identification, Reconstruction, and Tracking at IPPC Workshop @ IROS 2023. |
| Sep 03, 2023 | 🏆 I am selected as Pioneer of Medical Robotics at Data vs. Model in Medical Robotics @ IROS 2023. |
| May 24, 2023 | Our paper ORRN: An ODE-based Recursive Registration Network for Deformable Respiratory Motion Estimation with Lung 4DCT Images is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. |
| Jan 16, 2023 | Our paper Semantic-SuPer: A Semantic-Aware Surgical Perception Framework for Endoscopic Tissue Identification, Reconstruction, and Tracking is accepted by ICRA 2023. |
| Aug 01, 2022 | 🏆 I am selected as a Rising Star in EECS. |