Jaydev P. Desai
Director - Robotics, Automation, and Medical Systems (RAMS) Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland at College Park
Dr. Jaydev P. Desai is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; faculty member
of
the Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scienctific Computation (AMSC) Program; and, an affiliate faculty of the
Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the university, he was an
associate professor at Drexel University. He completed his undergraduate studies from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Bombay, India, in 1993. He received his M.A. in Mathematics in 1997, M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical
Engineering and Applied Mechanics in 1995 and 1998 respectively, all from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to
joining Drexel University, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at
Harvard University. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, lead inventor on the "Outstanding Invention of 2007
in
Physical Science Category" at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award.
His research interests include image-guided surgical robotics, grasping, haptics, reality-based soft-tissue modeling
for surgical simulation, model-based teleoperation in robot-assisted surgery, and cellular manipulation. He is
currently a member o the Haptics Symposium Program Committeel Co-Char o Surgical Robotics committee of IEEE Robotics
and Automation Society, member of the editorial board of ASME Journal of Medical Devices, IEEE Transactions on
Biomedical Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. He is also a member of the
ASME and IEEE.