MEDLab

Lab Director

Robert J Webster III

Affiliated Faculty

Smita De

Jason Mitchell

Thomas J Withrow

Graduate Students (PhD)

Max Emerson

Tayfun Efe Ertop

Yue Chen

James M Ferguson

Katy Riojas

NSF Fellowship

Margaret Rox

Patrick Wellborn

NSF Fellowship

Patrick Anderson

NSF Fellowship

Michael Siebold

NSF Fellowship

Andria Remirez

NSF Fellowship

Trevor Bruns

Graduate Students (MS)

Stephanie Amack

Undergraduate Students

Cindy Lin Liu

PhD/Postdoc Alumni

Loris Fichera

Postdoc

Assistant Prof., WPI

Jessica Burgner

Postdoc

Faculty, MZH Hannover

Isuru Godage

Postdoc

Assistant Prof., DePaul

Art Mahoney

Postdoc

Sarcos Robotics

Raul Wirz

Postdoc

Research Scientist, Vanderbilt EE Dep

Philip Swaney

PhD Student

Tech Transfer Officer, Vanderbilt

Hunter Gilbert

PhD Student

Assistant Prof., LSU

Lou Kratchman

PhD Student

Draper Labs

Jenna Gorlewicz

PhD Student

Assistant Prof., SLU

Caleb Rucker

PhD Student

Assistant Prof., UT Knoxville

Neal Dillon

PhD Student

Virtuoso Surgical

Ray Lathrop

PhD Student

Eli Lilly

Richard Hendrick

PhD Student

Virtuoso Surgical

David Comber

Co-Advised PhD Student

Sarcos Robotics

Jadav Das

Co-Advised PhD Student

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Undergraduate Alumni

Nick Catalan

Patrick Hall

Matthew Medlock

Mark Chambliss

Dylan P Losey

Peter York

Dexter Watkins

Syed Hamid

Sani Sulaiman

Marlena Clark

Scott Nill

Jordan Croom

Amri Abdul Razak

Michael Jekot

Brandon Bolds

Todd Dutton

Rob Pieper

Sam Nackman

Tiffany Cheng

Jim Boyle

Randy Smith

Xavier Waller

David Gostin

Tyler Steier

Justin Saunders

Zach Smith

Mohammed (Mish) Rahman

Stephen (Sam) Malanowski

Yifan Zhu

Erik Lamers

Matthew Hostetler

Recent News

09/05/2017

Max Emerson, Tayfun Efe Ertop and Stephanie Amack all joined the MED Lab this summer. We're looking forward to all the cool research they'll be doing as they pursue graduate degrees!

07/03/2017

At the 2017 ICRA conference in Singapore, Patrick presented his work on Real-Time Redundancy Resolution for Concentric Tube Robots to Avoid Elastic Instability. He was awarded best poster in the C4 Surgical Robotics Workshop. Congrats, Patrick!

06/26/2017

MED Lab post-doc Isuru Godage will be heading to Chicago this fall as an assistant professor in the School of Computing at DePaul University. Congrats, Isuru!

06/26/2017

MED Lab post-doc Loris Fichera has accepted a faculty position in the Computer Science department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Congratulations to Loris!

05/05/2017

Richard Hendrick defended his PhD dissertation today, entitled "System Design and Elastic Stability Modeling of Transendoscopic Continuum Robots". Congratulations, Rich!

04/01/2017

MED Lab student Patrick Anderson was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship this year. Congratulations, Patrick!

12/12/2016

Neal Dillon defended his dissertation today, entitled "Analysis, Design, and Modeling of Image-Guided Robotic Systems for Otologic Surgery." Congratulations to Neal!

06/29/2016

The needle-sized mechanical wrist developed in the MEDLab was featured by the Wall Street Journal! A link to the article can be found here.

06/01/2016

MED Lab PhD graduate Philip Swaney joins the Vanderbilt Center for Technology Transfer and commercialization as a tech transfer officer. Congrats, Phil!

05/01/2016

Hunter Gilbert has accepted a faculty position with the Mechanical Engineering Department at Louisiana State University! Before he starts his faculty job, he'll also be completing a one year post-doctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany, working under Professor Metin Sitti. Congratulations to Hunter!