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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:

[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".

[12/23] Awarded Duke Mechanical Engineering Department Best Teaching Assistant Award (Fall 2023)

[12/23] "Development of a Patient-Specific Hydrogel Liver Phantom with Intrahepatic Vascular Architecture" abstract accepted to 2024 American College of Surgeons (ACS) Surgical Simulation Summit  

[11/23] First-author publication "Preclinical Evaluation of a Novel Steerable Robotic Neuroendoscope Tool" accepted

to Operative Neurosurgery

[06/23] Presented "Incident Angle Study for Designing an Endoscopic Tool for Intraoperative Brain Tumor Detection"

at 2023 Hamlyn Symposium in Medical Robotcs 

[04/23] Two abstracts accepted to 2023 Hamlyn Symposium in Medical Robotics in London, United Kingdom

[02/23] "Brain-Mimicking Phantom for Photoablation and Visualization" accepted to IEEE 2023 International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR) in Atlanta, Georgia

[02/23] "Towards Steering a High-Dose Rate Brachytherapy Needle with a Robotic Steerable Stylet"

accepted to IEEE T-MRB

[08/22] Started Ph.D. program in Mechanical Engineering at Duke University

[07/22] Awarded NSF-NRT Traineeship in Advancing Surgical Technologies (TAST) at Duke University

2022 by Kent Yamamoto

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