Katy Riojas

Lab Role:

PhD Student

Awards:

NSF Fellowship

Recent News

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!

04/01/2016

Congratulations to Patrick Wellborn and incoming grad student Katy Riojas on receiving prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships!