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We have open positions for graduate students on our recently-funded project.

Prospective graduate students should click here to find about our new positions, research assistantship, and application process.

At AMMI lab, our aim is to develop smart medical instruments that could help surgeries to be less invasive and more accurate. To accomplish this task, we intend to incorporate advanced biocompatible materials and active components in our designs. Our projects cover a vast majority of topics such as material characterization and training, actuation, design and development, testing and evaluations, shape sensing, robotic instrumentation, image processing, and nonlinear feedback control studies. To find out more about our research activities, please check out the research tab.

AMMI is a research laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department at University of Hawaii at Manoa.

We have an opening for a competent visiting research scholar.

We also host limited number of interns every summer from highly motivated individuals. 

Undergraduate students: To check out our Vertically Integrated Projects (VIPs) click here

Our current major projects are: (a) a robotic needle that bends through the tissue with actuation, shape sensing, and control to deliver therapeutic drugs or to take biopsy samples, (b) ultrasound tracking of needle tip during a needle insertion task and image-guided needle steering, (c) a control algorithm for a robust adaptive motion planning of active surgical needles, and (d) Finite Element Analyses and simulation of medical devices steering inside the tissue.

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Apr 09, 2024 1 paper accepted and will be presented at the DMD Conference

Mar 03, 2024 Paper accepted in JRS

Nov 22, 2023 Sam successfully defended his MS

Aug 17, 2023 Paper accepted in ASME JESMDT

Jul 28, 2023 Chris presented at 2023 CREATE Summer Internship Poster Presentations

Jul 07, 2023 Poster presented at AAPM 65th Annual Meeting & Exhibition

Jun 15-16, 2023 Dr. Konh presented at NIH BIBIB 2023 TRAINING GRANTEES MEETING

Apr 18-19, 2023 3 papers accepted and presented at the DMD Conference. 1 poster presented at ISMR

Apr 2023 Dr. Konh was added to the Editorial Advisory Board for (IJMRCAS)

 

Jan 03, 2023 Paper accepted in JMRR

Nov 21, 2022 Zolboo successfully defended his MS

Aug 23, 2022 Paper presented at 9th IEEE RAS/EMBS BioRob 2022

Jul 10, 2022 Paper accepted in JMEP

Apr 13, 2022 Dr. Konh presented at ISMR workshop. 1 oral presentation at ISMR & 2 oral presentations at DMD Conference

Nov 18, 2021 Oral and Poster presentations at ISMR Conference

Aug 2021 New funding from NIH

Apr 26, 2021 Paper accepted in The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery

Jan 27, 2021 Paper accepted in JMRR

Feb 3, 2021 Paper accepted in DMD Conference

Dec 13, 2020 Dr. Konh presented at IEEE NANOMED

Dec 4, 2020 Blayton successfully defended his MS

Dec 1, 2020 Oral and Poster presentations at IEEE BioRob Conference

Nov 25, 2020 Gabrielle Baguio received UROP funding

Nov 13, 2020 Paper accepted in ASME Journal of Medical Devices

Nov 10, 2020 New funding from Cancer Center (Strategic Investment in Translational Science

Jul 7, 2020 Paper accepted in Surgical Innovation

Jun 25, 2020 Paper accepted in ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering

Jun 17, 2020 New Peer-Reviewed Hawaii Community Foundation (HCF) External Grant

Jun 17, 2020 Saeed successfully defended his PhD

Jun 03, 2020 Paper accepted in Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures
 

May 11, 2020 Dr. Seong Young Ko joined our lab as a visiting scholar

May 09, 2020 Paper accepted in IEEE BioRob Conference

May 05, 2020 Two papers presented at Design of Medical Devices Conference

Nov 26, 2019 Zahra successfully defended her MS Thesis

Jun 05, 2019 Paper published in ASME Journal of Medical Devices

May 27, 2019 Paper published in Robotica

Apr 26, 2019 Saeed passed his comprehensive exam

Apr 16, 2019 Two papers presented at Design of Medical Devices

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