Meet the Team
Principal Investigators
Mohsen Khadem
Lecturer in Robotics
Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 2956
Email: mohsen.khadem@ed.ac.uk
Web: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/skhadem/
Research Interests:
Surgical Robotics, Continuum Robotics, Dynamic Modeling, Control Theory, Computer Vision.

Kev Dhaliwal
Personal Chair of Molecular Imaging & Healthcare and Consultant Physician in Respiratory Medicine
Secretary – Carolyn Newton: +44 (0)131 242 9180
Email: kev.dhaliwal@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Academic Profile
- Web: Proteus website
Postdoctoral Researchers

David Hanley
Email: dhanley@ed.ac.uk
Research Interests: Navigation systems design, state estimation, dynamic modeling, and sensor modeling.

Abhishek Kaushik
Email: akaushi2@ed.ac.uk
Research Interests: Surgical robots, Autonomous neuro-registration, Algorithm development, Computer vision, Medical image analysis.
Ph.D. Students

Balint Thamo
Email: b.thamo@sms.ed.ac.uk
Research Interests: Surgical Robotics, Concentric Tube Robots, Motion Planning, Control Theory, Optimization.
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Emile Makute
Email: s1657385@sms.ed.ac.uk
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Medical Image Processing, and Continuum Robots.

Alex Adams
Research Interests: Data science and its application in spectroscopy for cancer diagnosis.
Co-supervisor with Dr. Sohan Seth

Zhaoxing Deng
Email: Z.Deng-10@sms.ed.ac.uk
Research Interests: Surgical Robotics, Surgical Skill Assessment, Data-Driven Modeling, Imitation Learning
Alumni
Keyhan Kouhkiloui Babarahmati, Research Associate, University of Edinburgh
Mriganka Biswas, Lecturer at University of Sunderland
