LCSR in the News
- Joseph Moore, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Agile and Intelligent Robotics (AIRO) Lab has received an award from the Army Research Laboratory Tactical Behaviors for Autonomous Maneuver Cycle 2 program. He has received $835,660 over two years to conduct research in collaboration with the Applied Physics Laboratory on risk-aware tactical planning for multirobot teams in dynamic environments.
- May 2025 — Debojyoti Biswas, a postdoc working in the Locomotion in Mechanical and Biological Systems (LIMBS) Laboratory and the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR), has been invited to include his paper the European Journal of Control for their special issue, “Best Papers Accepted for Presentation at the 2025 European Control Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece.”
- April 2025 – Tatiana Kashtanova, doctoral student in the SMARTS lab under the direction of research professor Peter Kanzanzides, has received a grant from the Orlando Health Foundation for her work on “Treatment Response Assessment and Prognosis of Metastatic Brain Cancer.”
- April 2025 — Debojyoti Biswas was selected as one of the winners of this year’s Empower Your Pitch! (EYP) research communication competition in the Postdoctoral category. The EYP Finale, hosted by the Doctoral Life Design Studio at JHU, took place April 8. Debojyoti works in the Locomotion in Mechanical and Biological Systems (LIMBS) Laboratory and the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR). Read more here.
- March 2025 – Mathias Unberath has received a grant for his project, “A Multi-robot System for Semi-automated Image-guided Vertebral Augmentation,” from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Read more about this project here.
- January 2025 — Iulian Iordachita was awarded a grant for “Enabling Dexterous Intraocular Surgery with Robotic Assistance, from National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Read more about this project here.
- November 2024 – Robotics MSE Student Junling Mei was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award, First Place, from the 2025 International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR) Conference, for being the lead author of a paper entitled, “Evaluation of Needle Manipulation Controller Subject to Uncertainty of Tip Pose Feedback: A Simulation Study.”
- September 2024 – Auris Health has awarded Mathias Unberath a grant for his project, “Vision-Based Dynamic Mapping of Bronchial Tree Anatomy and Airways.” With his group, the Advanced Robotics and Computationally AugmenteD Environments (ARCADE) Lab, Unberath builds the future of computer-assisted medicine. He is the John C. Malone Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science with secondary appointments in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery at the School of Medicine. He is also a core faculty member of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) and the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, and an affiliate faculty member in the Institute for Assured Autonomy.
- August 2024 – In collaboration with the Tokuda Lab at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Iulian Iordachita has received an NIH grant to study robot-assisted catheter placement to facilitate adaptive image guided pelvic brachytherapy. Iordachita is a research professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at JHU, a member of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, and director of the Advanced Medical Instrumentation and Robotics (AMIRo) Research Lab. Read more about this project here.
- June 2024 – Krystal Lan, student in the Locomotion in Mechanical and Biological Systems (LIMBS) Laboratory, has received NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award! Read more here.
- February 2024 — The paper, “Steady-Hand Eye Robot 3.0: Optimization and Benchtop Evaluation for Subretinal Injection,” authored by postdoctoral researchers Alireza Alamdar, David E. Usevitch, visiting PhD student Jiahao Wu, and professors Russell Taylor, Peter Gehlbach, and Iulian Iordachita, was awarded the Best Paper Award by IEEE Transactions in Medical Robotics and Bionics.
- November 2023 – X-ray vision: Tech could improve efficiency of pelvic fracture surgery
- November 9 2023 – Photo of the Week
- January 2023 – Bisi Bell elected as SPIE Fellow
- July 2022 – Russell Taylor guest edits IEEE special issue on surgical robotics
- June 2022 – Researchers named finalists for ICRA Outstanding Locomotion Paper
- June 2022 – Hopkins students build deep learning tools for medicine, music, and more
- April 2022 – Russ Taylor: The role of AI in Robotic Surgery (Podcast)
- March 2022 – Johns Hopkins engineers build robot to perform surgery without a doctor (Capital Gazette)
- Jan 2022 – Robot performs first laparoscopic surgery without human help
- Jan 2022 – Upstarts: A Better Alert for Fetal Distress
- Jan 2022 – Ensuring the Safety of AI-Based Systems
- Dec 2021 – New photoacoustic imaging process has potential to improve biopsies and catheter insertions
- Dec 2021 – Accelerating Surgical Robotics Research (da Vinci Research Kit)
- Dec 2021 – Interview with Professor Russell Taylor
- Dec 2021 – A virtual reality simulator to train surgeons for skull-base procedures
- Nov 2021 – Podcast episode on Surgical and Vision-Guided Robotics
SURPASS Award 2023-2024, 2024-2025
Creel Family Teaching Assistant Award (JHU Mechanical Engineering)
- Henry Phalen, Annie Mao, Brian Woronowicz, and our MSE student Boyang Xiao
Muyinatu Bell
Emad Boctor
Jeremy Brown
Yuxin Chen
- Intuitive Young Investigator Travel Award for “A Force-sensing Surgical Drill for Real-time Force Feedback in Robotic Mastoidectomy” (June 2023)

Laura Connoly
March 2024 – Laura Connolly wins Imaging Network Ontario Symposium award for best presentation
Noah Cowan
- Noah Cowan elevated to IEEE Fellow
David Gracias
- David Gracias was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (FNAI, 2025). Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction for academic inventors.
Chien-Ming Huang
Autumn Hughes
- Metropolitan Washington Chapter of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation, undergraduate scholarship
Ali Ebrahimi
- 2021 Link Foundation Fellowship in Modeling, Simulation, and Training
Jeeun Kang
Axel Krieger
- 2022 National Science Foundation’s Early CAREER Award
- 2021 Best Student Paper Award IEEE 21st International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)
- 2021 Latest research work on Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot published in Science Robotics: DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abj2908
Simon Leonard
- 2021 Career Impact Award Winner
Chen Li
Xiaolong Liu
Hyunwoo Song
- Siemens Best Paper Award : Runner-up (June 2023)
Jessica Su
- Metropolitan Washington Chapter of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation, undergraduate scholarship
Russ Taylor
Mathias Unberath
Past LCSR in the News
Joseph Moore
Terradynamics Lab
Chien-Ming Huang
- Scassellati, B., Boccanfuso, L.*, Huang, C.-M.*, Mademtzi, M.*, Qin, M.*, Salomons, N.*, Ventola, P., and Shic, F. (2018). Improving Social Skills in Children with ASD Using a Long-Term, In-Home Social Robot. Science Robotics. *These authors have equal contribution.
- Ramachandran, A., Huang, C. M., & Scassellati, B. (2019). Toward Effective Robot–Child Tutoring: Internal Motivation, Behavioral Intervention, and Learning Outcomes. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 9(1), 2.
LIMBS Lab
- I. Uyanik, S. A. Stamper, N. J. Cowan, and E. S. Fortune, “Sensory Cues Modulate Smooth Pursuit and Active Sensing Movements,” Front Behav Neurosci, vol. 13, iss. 59, 2019.
- R. P. Jayakumar, M. S. Madhav, F. Savelli, H. T. Blair, N. J. Cowan, and J. J. Knierim, “Recalibration of path integration in hippocampal place cells,” Nature, 2019.
PULSE Lab
- Wiacek A, Rindal OMH, Falomo E, Myers K, Fabrega-Foster K, Harvey S, Bell MAL, Robust Short-Lag Spatial Coherence Imaging of Breast Ultrasound Data: Initial Clinical Results, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 66(3):527-540, 2019