Call for papers - Surgical robotics

Mobarakol Islam, PhD, University College London, UK

Dr Mobarakol Islam is a Senior Research Fellow at the Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) and the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at University College London. He has a distinguished background in AI, Surgical Data Science, and Medical Image Analysis, with postdoctoral experience at Imperial College London and the National University of Singapore, where he also completed his PhD, in addition to four years of industry experience at SAMSUNG R&D. His research endeavors focus on developing AI foundation models and multimodal large language models that prioritize safety, fairness, and reliability, particularly in medical applications. Dr Islam's contributions and leadership have been recognized through his roles as Area Chair and Oral Session Chair at MICCAI, an Editorial Board Member at Scientific Reports, and numerous awards, including the Turing Postdoctoral Enrichment Award.

Ken Masamune, PhD, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Japan

Dr Ken Masamune is a Professor at the Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Japan.  His major is in the field of medical robotics, augmented reality for surgery, surgical scenario research, and regulator science study on development of medical equipment. The representative works are MRI compatible robots for needle placement therapy, augmented reality for surgical navigation with non-metal display inside MRI, Smart Cyber Operating Theater (SCOT) with an AI support system. Dr Masamune’s research aims to utilize clinical settings to assist surgeons, and finally contribute to improving patient quality of life.