Shing Shin Cheng

Ph.D Student
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Room 021, 801 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332
Phone: (404)385-6804
Email: scheng46@gatech.edu

 

Education

• Ph.D., Robotics, Georgia Institute of Technology (In Progress)
• M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland (May 2016)
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (May 2013)

Research

• Development of a minimally invasive neurosurgical intracranial robot phase II (MINIR-II)

Publications

Archival Publications

• Yeongjin Kim, Shing Shin Cheng, and  Jaydev P. Desai, “Active Stiffness Tuning of a Spring-Based Continuum Robot for MRI-Guided Neurosurgery”, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 18-28, Feb. 2018; DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2017.2750692.
• Yeongjin Kim, Shing Shin Cheng, Mahamadou Diakite, Rao P. Gullapalli, J. Marc Simard, and  Jaydev P. Desai, “Toward the Development of a Flexible Mesoscale MRI-Compatible Neurosurgical Continuum Robot”, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 33, no.6, pp. 1386-1397, Dec. 2017; DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2017.2719035.
• Shing Shin Cheng, Yeongjin Kim, and Jaydev P. Desai, “New Actuation Mechanism for Actively Cooled SMA Springs in a Neurosurgical Robot”, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 33, no.4, pp. 986-993, Aug. 2017; 10.1109/TRO.2017.2679199.
• Shing Shin Cheng, Yeongjin Kim, and Jaydev P. Desai, “Modeling and Characterization of SMA Springs with Water Cooling Strategy in a Neurosurgical Robot”, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Article first published online, Jan. 2017; DOI: 10.1177/1045389X16685443. 
• Mingyen Ho, Yeongjin Kim, Shing Shin Cheng, Rao Gullapalli, and Jaydev P. Desai. “Design, development, and evaluation of an MRI-guided SMA spring-actuated neurosurgical robot.” The International journal of robotics research, vol. 34, no. 8 (2015): 1147-1163.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

• Shing Shin Cheng,  Xuefeng Wang, and  Jaydev P. Desai, “Design and analysis of a remotely-actuated cable-driven neurosurgical robot”, 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017), pp. 1685–1690, Sep. 2017; DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2017.8205980.
• Shing Shin Cheng, Yeongjin Kim, Jaydev P. Desai, “Towards Real-Time Control of a Neurosurgical Robot: MINIR-II,” 2015 International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR 2015) (Accepted)
• Shing Shin Cheng and Jaydev P. Desai, “Towards High Frequency Actuation of SMA Spring for the Neurosurgical Robot – MINIR-II,” 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015), Seattle, Washington.
• Yeongjin Kim, Shing Shin Cheng, Aleksandrs Ecins, Cornelia Fermuller, Kelly P. Westlake, Jaydev P. Desai, “Towards a robotic hand rehabilitation exoskeleton for stroke therapy,” Proceedings of ASME 2014 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2014, San Antonio, Texas.