Katy Riojas

Lab Role:

PhD Student

Awards:

NSF Fellowship

Projects

Needlescopic Surgical Instruments

Robot-Like Dexterity... Without the Robot

Restoring Hearing to Deaf Patients

Recent News

08/06/2018

The MED Lab makes an appearance on Nashville's largest news network! News Channel 5 aired a story on one of our newest robot systems developed for lung surgery. Check out the story here on YouTube.

04/08/2018

MED Lab director Dr. Robert Webster has been elevated to Full Professor this year. Congratulations, Dr. Webster!

10/20/2017

This year's winner of the MED Lab Salsa Cookoff was Max Emerson. The competition was tough, but Max's tasty, California-style guacamole came out on top!

10/19/2017

Stephanie Amack scores her third goal of the soccer season, and Vanderbilt beats University of Tennessee in a nail-biter! Congrats, Steph!

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!