Biography: Liangjing Yang is an assistant professor in Zhejiang University/ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (ZJU-UIUC) Institute. He received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in mechanical engineering from the National University of Singapore. He obtained the D.Eng. degree from the University of Tokyo before receiving a joint postdoctoral fellowship to work at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Liangjing’s research interests include Robotics and Machine Vision primarily focusing on medical applications. His work on image mapping for 3D ultrasound-guided endoscopic procedures is featured in both engineering and medical journals. He also developed a robotic system for overlapping ablation of large liver tumor, which is published in a special issue on “Surgical and Interventional Medical Devices” of ASME/IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics. He holds a US patent on a Robotic Surgical Training System. This development was named “Best Innovation in Biomedical Application” in a challenge organized by National Instrument in 2011.

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