Ph.D. (2006) University of California, Berkeley; B.S. (2001) California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
World Area Of Focus:
• Western Europe/European Union (EU) Less than 10%
Specialization:
Robotics, robot-assisted surgery, motion planning, medical simulation, medical image registration
Relevant Experience:
• 2015-2015 Visited a robotics research group at Technical University of Berlin for several months as part of an international grant from NSF. • 2006-2007 Postdoctoral researcher in robotics and artificial intelligence at LAAS-CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) in Toulouse, France.
Distinctions:
Finalist for Intuitive Surgical Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2009); National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (2007); Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2003)
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
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Relevant Courses Taught:
• COMP 410 Data Structures • COMP 581 Introduction to Robotics • COMP 781 Robotics • COMP 782 Motion Planning in Physical and Virtual Worlds
Recent Publications:
• 2012 Jur van den Berg, Sachin Patil, and Ron Alterovitz, "Motion planning under uncertainty using iterative local optimization in belief space," International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 1263-1278, Sep. 2012.
• 2011 Kyle B. Reed, Ann Majewicz, Vinutha Kallem, Ron Alterovitz, Ken Goldberg, Noah J. Cowan, Allison M. Okamura, "Robot-Assisted Needle Steering," IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, vol. 18, pp. 35-46, Dec. 2011.
• 2010 Vincent Duindam, Jijie Xu, Ron Alterovitz, Shankar Sastry, and Ken Goldberg, "Three-dimensional Motion Planning Algorithms for Steerable Needles Using Inverse Kinematics," International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 789–800, June 2010.
• 2009 Ron Alterovitz, Aaron Arvey, Sriram Sankararaman, Carolina Dallett, Yoav Freund, and Kimmen Sjolander, "ResBoost: Characterizing and Predicting Catalytic Residues in Enzymes," BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 10, no. 197, pp. 1–14, June 2009.
• 2009 Ron Alterovitz, Ken Goldberg, Jean Pouliot, and I-Chow Hsu, "Sensorless Motion Planning for Medical Needle Insertion in Deformable Tissues," IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 217–225, Mar. 2009.
• 2009 Nuttapong Chentanez, Ron Alterovitz, Daniel Ritchie, Jonha Cho, Kris Hauser, Ken Goldberg, Jonathan R. Shewchuk, and James F. OBrien, "Interactive Simulation of Surgical Needle Insertion and Steering," ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 88:1–88:10, Aug. 2009.
• 2009 Ron Alterovitz and Jaydev P. Desai, "Surgical Robotics," IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 16–17, June 2009.
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