Jaydev P. Desai
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|workplaces = Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University
|alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania
|doctoral_advisor = Vijay Kumar
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Jaydev P. Desai is an Indian roboticist, known for his research in robotic surgery and the control and coordination of multi-robot formations.{{cite journal
| author = Desai, J.P. |author2=Ostrowski, J.P. |author3=Kumar, V.
| year = 2001
| title = Modeling and control of formations of nonholonomic mobile robots
| journal = IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
| volume = 17
| issue = 6
| pages = 905–908
| url = https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/976023
| accessdate = 2008-06-29
| doi = 10.1109/70.976023
|last1=Desai |first1=J. P.
|last2=Ostrowski |first2=J.
|last3=Kumar |first3=V.
|year = 1998
|chapter=Controlling formations of multiple mobile robots
|title=Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.98CH36146)
|volume= |pages=2864–2869
|publisher = IEEE
|doi=10.1109/ROBOT.1998.680621
|isbn=0-7803-4300-X
|url = https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/680621
}}
As of 2024, he holds the G.P. "Bud" Peterson and Valerie H. Peterson Faculty Professorship in Pediatric Research and the Cardiovascular Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Chair in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University.{{cite web|url=https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/faculty/Jaydev-Desai |title=Jaydev Desai |publisher= Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering |accessdate=December 30, 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/news/bme-endows-four-new-faculty-chairs |title=BME Endows Four New Faculty Chairs |publisher= Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering |date=October 25, 2024 |accessdate= December 30, 2024}} He is an elected fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2015),{{cite web|url=https://www.asme.org/getmedia/fb403911-4485-4a50-8232-3b04ea4ac4c0/fellows-all-updated-march-2024.pdf |title=Fellows: all |publisher=ASME |date=March 2024 |accessdate=December 30, 2024}} the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2017),{{cite web|url=https://aimbe.org/college-of-fellows/cof-2113/ |title=Jaydev P. Desai, Ph.D. |publisher=AIMBE |date=March 1, 2017 |accessdate=December 30, 2024 }} and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2018),{{cite web |url=https://www.ieee-ras.org/about-ras/latest-news/2018-ieee-ras-fellow-class-announced |title=2018 IEEE RAS Fellow Class Announced |date=30 November 2017 |publisher=IEEE |accessdate=December 30, 2024}} and was the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Robotics Research. He was previously at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Education and career
Desai received his B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1993 and an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics also from UPenn in 1995 and 1998, respectively. His thesis "Motion Planning and Control of Cooperative Robotic Systems" was advised by Vijay Kumar.{{cite journal
| author = Desai, J.P.
| year = 1998
| title = Motion planning and control of cooperative robotic systems
| journal = Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
| url = https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1074&context=ircs_reports
| accessdate = 2008-06-30
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Desai spent 1998–1999 as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University under Robert Howe, and as an assistant and associate professor at Drexel University before joining the University of Maryland, College Park as an associate professor in 2006.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}
Research
His research is in the area of medical robotics. As of 2024, he gives his research areas as "endovascular and transcatheter robotics, image-guided surgical robotics, MEMS-based cancer diagnosis, pediatric robotics, and rehabilitation and assistive robotics".
References
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External links
- [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hpbQN-AAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Google Scholar profile]
- [https://rams.umd.edu/html/desai.shtml Home page]
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Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni