Ki-Hwan Oh

Interested in the automation of surgical robots.

Physical Human-Human Interaction:
• Investigated human-human collaborative manipulation, identifying low-level patterns for negotiation and motion execution.
• Developed a framework for recognizing human intent in collaborative manipulation tasks using force exchanges.
• Demonstrated a robust intent recognizer, suitable for human-robot collaboration in physical interaction control.

Automation of Robotic Cholecystectomy:
• Enabled the da Vinci (Intuitive) to differentiate liver and gallbladder tissues utilizing a state-of-the-art model on the endoscopic images in real-time.
• Reconstructed 3D information through stereo images, controlled the instrument relative to the tissue boundary using visual feedback, and performed energy delivery.
• Conducted ex-vivo evaluations on chicken and pork liver specimens, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed framework.

B.S. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering Sung Kyun Kwan University, Seoul, S. Korea

Currently Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, U.S.