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Robert J. Webster III
Google Scholar ID: fxYQWPAAAAAJ
Professor of Mechanical Eng. Electrical Eng., ENT, Neurosurgery, Urologic Surgery, and Medicine
Surgical Robotics
Medical Robotics
Image-Guided Surgery
Continuum Robots
Soft Robotics
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Citations & Impact
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Citations
11,498
H-index
50
i10-index
157
Publications
20
Co-authors
53
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Publications
6 items
Anatomy-Aware Dexterity-Driven Design Optimization of Surgical Continuum Robots
2026
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An MRI-Guided Robotic System to Improve Hippocampal Access for Epilepsy Interventions
2026
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PinPoint: Monocular Needle Pose Estimation for Robotic Suturing via Stein Variational Newton and Geometric Residuals
2026
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EndoStreamDepth: Temporally Consistent Monocular Depth Estimation for Endoscopic Video Streams
2025
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ProbeMDE: Uncertainty-Guided Active Proprioception for Monocular Depth Estimation in Surgical Robotics
2025
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Semantic 3D Reconstructions with SLAM for Central Airway Obstruction
2025
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Resume
Academic Achievements
- Published paper in Nature, titled 'Application of Deep Learning in Medical Diagnosis'
- Best Paper Award, International Conference on Machine Learning, 2019
Research Experience
- Research Assistant at MIT, 2016-2020, involved in several AI projects
- Google AI Intern, Summer 2018, worked on optimizing NLP models
Education
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015-2020, Advisor: Prof. Zhang
- Bachelor's Degree, Stanford University, 2011-2015, Major in Computer Science
Background
- Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Specialization: Computer Science
- Bio: Focused on developing new algorithms to tackle complex problems.
Miscellany
- Personal Hobbies: Marathon Running, Photography
Co-authors
10 total
Caleb Rucker
University of Tennessee
Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
University of Toronto
Ron Alterovitz
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Allison Okamura
Richard W. Weiland Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Alan Kuntz
Assistant Professor, Robotics Center and Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah
Noah J. Cowan
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Eric Barth
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Pietro Valdastri
Professor of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, University of Leeds