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Melody Su

Publication

Su, Y.H., Huang, K., & Hannaford, B. (2021). Multicamera 3D Viewpoint Adjustment for Robotic Surgery via Deep Reinforcement Learning. Journal of Medical Robotics Research (2021): 2140003. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2424905X21400031

Su, Y.H.; Jiang, W.; Chitrakar, D.; Huang, K.; Peng, H.; Hannaford, B. Local Style Preservation in Improved GAN-Driven Synthetic Image Generation for Endoscopic Tool Segmentation. Sensors 2021, 21, 5163. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21155163

Su, Y.H., Huang, K., & Hannaford, B. (2020). Multicamera 3D Reconstruction of Dynamic Surgical Cavities: Autonomous Optimal Camera Viewpoint Adjustment. 2020 International Symposium On Medical Robotics (ISMR). https://doi.org/10.1109/ismr48331.2020.9312951  

Su, Y.H., Sosnovskaya, Y., Hannaford, B., & Huang, K. (2020). Securing Robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery through Perception Complementarities. 2020 Fourth IEEE International Conference On Robotic Computing (IRC). https://doi.org/10.1109/irc.2020.00013  

Su, Y.H., Munawar, A., Deguet, A., Lewis, A., Lindgren, K., & Li, Y. et al. (2020). Collaborative Robotics Toolkit (CRTK): Open Software Framework for Surgical Robotics Research. 2020 Fourth IEEE International Conference On Robotic Computing (IRC). https://doi.org/10.1109/irc.2020.00014 

Honor

Liu, W.; Pickett, A.; Huang, K. & Su, Y.H. (2022). Camera Configuration Models for Machine Vision Based Force Estimation in Robot-Assisted Soft Body Manipulation. 2022 International Symposium On Medical Robotics (ISMR).

Melody Su continues her strong medical robotics research connections with UW, RIT, JHU and Trinity College. With the recent renovation completion of her new Intelligent Medical Robotics (IMeRo) research lab, she recruited eight Mount Holyoke research students to participate in her ongoing medical robotics research projects.

Geoffrey S. Sumi

Publication

Sumi, G. S. (2021). Spectatorship, Control, and Collective Groups. In A. Futrell and T. Scanlon (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (pp. 603–13). Oxford University Press.

Sumi, G. S. 2020. “Nero and Britannicus in the pompa circensis. The Circus Procession as Dynastic Ceremony in the Court of Claudius.” Klio 120:617–664.   

Honor

The Classical Association of New England (CANE) honored Geoff Sumi with its Barlow-Beach Distinguished Service Award for “distinguished service to CANE and to classics in New England.” Geoff received the award at the March 2023 CANE Annual Meeting.