{"502201":{"#nid":"502201","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Jaydev Desai Joins the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJaydev Desai, Ph.D., is joining the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory this summer (2016) as Professor of Biomedical Engineering with the title of \u201cBME Distinguished Faculty Fellow.\u0022 His research interests include image-guided surgical robotics, reality-based soft-tissue modeling for surgical simulation, grasping, haptics, and micro-scale cell and tissue characterization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is currently a professor and director of the Robotics, Automation, and Medical Systems (RAMS) Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). Prior to joining UMCP, he was an associate professor at Drexel University. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University from 1998 to 1999.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is a recipient several NIH R01 awards, NSF CAREER award, and also the lead inventor on the \u201cOutstanding Invention of 2007 in \u003Cem\u003EPhysical Science Category\u003C\/em\u003E\u201d at UMCP. He is a recipient of the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. In 2011, he was an invited speaker at the National Academy of Sciences \u201cDistinctive Voices\u201d seminar series on the topic of \u201c\u003Cem\u003ERobot-Assisted Neurosurgery\u003C\/em\u003E\u201d at the Beckman Center. He was also invited to attend the National Academy of Engineering\u2019s 2011 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. 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Teetor Educational Award - Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECollege of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award (2004) - Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Contribution to Graduate Teaching (2004) - Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENational Science Foundation CAREER Award \u2013 \u201cCAREER: Minimally Invasive Surgery using Haptics and Vision\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u00b7\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Brings medical robotics and robot-assisted surgery expertise"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Brings medical robotics and robot-assisted surgery expertise"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2016-02-17 15:26:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:46","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"502161":{"id":"502161","type":"image","title":"Jaydev Desai, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and \u201cBME Distinguished Faculty Fellow\u201d.","body":null,"created":"1455904800","gmt_created":"2016-02-19 18:00:00","changed":"1475895261","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:21","alt":"Jaydev Desai, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and \u201cBME Distinguished Faculty Fellow\u201d.","file":{"fid":"204741","name":"jaydevphotographv3-mcsize_wborderv2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jaydevphotographv3-mcsize_wborderv2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jaydevphotographv3-mcsize_wborderv2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":218651,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jaydevphotographv3-mcsize_wborderv2_0.jpg?itok=HYdwyWwo"}}},"media_ids":["502161"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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