Director of RoboMed Laboratory
313 Ferst Drive, Suite 3112
Atlanta, GA 30332
Phone: 404-385-5381
Fax: TBA
Email: jaydev@gatech.edu
Brief Bio:
Dr. Jaydev P. Desai is currently a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining UMCP, he was an Associate Professor at Drexel University. He completed his undergraduate studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, in 1993. He received his M.A. in Mathematics in 1997, M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in 1995 and 1998 respectively, all from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Drexel University, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is a recipient several NIH R01 awards, NSF CAREER award, and was also the lead inventor on the “Outstanding Invention of 2007 in Physical Science Category” at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also the recipient of the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. In 2011, he was an invited speaker at the National Academy of Sciences “Distinctive Voices” seminar series on the topic of “Robot-Assisted Neurosurgery” at the Beckman Center. He was also invited to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s 2011 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. His research interests include image-guided surgical robotics, reality-based soft-tissue modeling for surgical simulation, grasping, haptics, and micro-scale cell and tissue characterization. He is also a fellow of the ASME and a senior member of the IEEE.
Affiliations
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research
Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Intracranial Robot
Mechano-Visual Phenotyping of Breast Cancer
MEMS-based Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Discretely Actuated Steerable Cannula
Rehabilitation Robot for Stroke Therapy
MRI-Guided Breast Biopsy/RFA
Soft-Tissue Modeling for Surgical Simulation
Compliant Grasping using Astriction
