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Kent Yamamoto

Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. Candidate

Duke University

Surgical Robotics Research

STEM Teaching/Mentoring/Outreach

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Los Angeles, California

2009 - 2012

Deerfield, Massachusetts

2012 - 2016

Atlanta, Georgia

2016 - 2021

Durham, North Carolina

2022 - Present

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News: 

[10/25] Won 1st Place, Audience Choice Award, and Most Disruptive Research Award at the 2025 Duke Neurosurgery Shark Tank.

[10/25] Presented "Novel Steerable Robotic Tool for Endoscopic Approaches: A Cadaveric Study" at the 2025 Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS).

[03/25] "Inguinal Hernia Simulation Model" won 1st place at the 2025 American College of Surgeons (ACS) DIY Model Competition. 

[02/25] "Tendon Actuated Concentric Tube Endonasal Robot (TACTER)" accepted for publication in Journal of Medical Robotics Research (JMRR).

[12/24] Awarded Duke Bass Connections Health Policy and Innovation Award towards developing a course on how to create high-fidelity surgical simulators for surgical training.

[11/24] "Inguinal Hernia Simulation Model" made Finalist in 2025 American College of Surgeons (ACS) DIY Model Competition.

[08/24] Became Engineering Lead at Duke Department of Surgery's Surgical Education and Activities Lab (SEAL)

[05/24] "Towards The Development of a Tendon-Actuated Galvanometer for Endoscopic Surgical Laser Scanning" won Best Student Paper Award - 2nd Place at International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR).

[04/24] Passed Qualification Exam

[04/24] Awarded NSF GRFP (Robotics) 

[02/24] Two conference papers accepted to IEEE 2024 International Symposium on Medical Robotics, one first-author paper titled "Towards the Development of a Tendon-Actuated Galvanometer for Endoscopic Surgical Laser Scanning".

2025 by Kent Yamamoto

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