Hi, I am a PhD Student in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park. Currently I am working as a full time Graduate Research Assistant in Robotics, Automation, Manipulation and Sensing (RAMS) Laboratory, supervised by Professor Jaydev P. Desai.
EDUCATION
- PhD: Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 01/2007 - Current
- BS: Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 09/2002 – 12/2006
RESEARCH
- Current
- Modeling and simulation of needle-soft tissue interaction
- Previous
- Collected data from compression, tension and pure shear tests on exvivo pig liver which was used to generate a constitutive model of liver tissue.
- Developed and constructed a haptics enabled prototype robotic device for needle insertion under continuous MRI.
- Tested effects of amino acid modifications in RING finger proteins
PUBLICATIONS
- Zhan Gao, Kevin Lister, Jaydev P. Desai, “Constitutive Modeling of Liver Tissue: Experiment and Theory, Second biennial IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics – BioRob, October 2008.
- Kevin Lister, Rebecca Kokes, Bao Zhang, Rao Gullapalli, Jaydev P. Desai, “MRI Compatible Robotic System with Haptic Feedback for RF Ablation/Biopsy under Continuous MRI”, The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Toronto, Canada, 2008.
- Rebecca Kokes, Kevin Lister, Rao Gullapalli, Bao Zhang, Howard Richard, Jaydev P. Desai, “Towards a Needle Driver Robot for Radiofrequency Ablation of Tumors under Continuous MRI”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2008 .
- Kevin Lister and Jaydev P. Desai, “Soft-Tissue Characterization during Monopolar Electrocautery Procedures”, The 16th Annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, Long Beach, CA, 2007.