User:Txia
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Tian Xia
- Company: JHU
- Department: NSF ERC CISST
- Office phone: 1-410-516-4779
- E-Mail:
- Web page: http://www.cisst.org/~tian
About Me
I'm a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at the Johns Hopkins University. My research advisor is Dr. Peter Kazanzides. My research interests are in surgical robotic systems. Please feel free to contact me!
Field of research
- Surgical Robotics
- Sensing
Affiliation
- Sensing, Manipulation and Real-Time Systems Laboratory
- Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics
- NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology
Publications / Posters
- Baird C, Xia T, Jallo G, Hayes K, Nakajima N, Hata N, Kazanzides P. Cooperatively-Controlled Image Guided Robot System for Skull Base Surgery. American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Chicago April 27- May 1, 2008
- Kazanzides P, Xia T, Baird C, Jallo G, Hayes K, Nakajima N, Hata N. A Cooperatively-Controlled Image Guided Robot System for Skull Base Surgery. The 16th Annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, Long Beach, California, 2008.
- Balicki M, Xia T. da Vinci EndoWrist Actuator. NSF International Research and Education in Engineering (IREE) Grantee Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 2007.
- Xia T, Kapoor A, Taylor R. The da Vinci EndoWrist Controller. NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Symposium, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 2005.
- Xia T, Rosen J. Force feedback simulation for surgery. Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle, 2004. Supported by the Mary Gates Research Training Grant.
Current Projects
Ph.D Experience
- My Qual Projects Site
- My Graduate Board Oral Exam Preparation
- My Thesis Preparation Site
- Research Progress
Travel
Course Work
- Fall 2007
- 600.421 Object Oriented Software Engineering
- Spring 2007
- 520.432 Medical Imaging Systems
- 550.413 Data Analysis
- 600.446 Computer Integrated Surgery II
- Fall 2006
- 600.445 Computer Integrated Surgery I
- 600.461 Computer Vision
- 550.661 Foundations of Optimization
Education
- 2006 - Present :: Master/Ph.D program in Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD CISST Website
- 2002-2006 :: B.S in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington, Seattle, WA EE Dept Website
- 1998-2002 :: Graduated from E. O. Smith High School, Storrs, CT
Research Notes
- VTK Tutorial
- Slicer Notes
- Programming Notes
- Literature Reviews
- Interest Page on Medical Equipments
- People in Robotics
- Bits of knowledge