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I have stopped updating this website for a while, all my latest innovations and robots can be found on my lab website: HEAlthcare Robotics and Telesurgery (HEART) Laboratory

I am an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Louisville, where I head the HEAlthcare Robotics and Telesurgery (HEART) Laboratory. At the HeaRT lab, we work on the design, modeling, and control of surgical robots, especially miniature continuum (flexible) robotic tools.

Prior to my faculty appointment, I was a Research Fellow in Cardiac Surgery at the Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, where I worked with Dr. Pierre Dupont in the Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering Lab. In Summer 2021, I graduated with a Ph.D. from the Medical Robotics and Automation Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where I worked on Robotic Guidewires and Neuro-endoscopes.

Feel free to send an email to yash.chitalia[at]louisville[dot]edu for any questions about my research.

Lab Openings Announcement

I have one opening for a motivated PhD student in my research team, the HEAlthcare Robotics and Telesurgery (HeaRT) Laboratory.
If playing with state-of-the-art 3D Printers, laser cutters, Raspberry Pi’s and NVIDIA Jetsons piques your interest, and you’d like to make a Ph.D. sized dent in the universe, we’re looking for you!

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[11/2023] Invited speaker at University of Louisville Health - Neurosurgery.
[10/2023] Invited speaker at the Duke Medical Robotics Symposium.
[10/2023] Organized a workshop on Data vs. Model in Medical Robotics at IROS 2023.
[09/2023] Paper on Robotic Neuroendoscope published in Science Robotics! [09/2023] HeaRT Lab doctoral student, Behnam Moradkhani, presents our first conference paper at CRAS 2023, happening in Paris, France.
[06/2023] Paper on COAST robotic guidewire published in Robotics and Automation - Letters.
[05/2023] Plenary Talk at the 6th International Conference of Magnetic Surgery and Life Science (ICMS)
[04/2023] Invited speaker at the The Holistic Forum of Medical Robotics Junior Professors at ISMR 2023.
[04/2023] Presented our paper on modeling tendon-driven concentric-tube robots at ISMR 2023.
[04/2023] Invited speaker at the Wisconsin Robotics Seminar Series.
[02/2023] Received the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.