Postdoc: Surgical Robotics & Autonomy

Cedars-Sinai; West Hollywood (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cedars-Sinai in West Hollywood, CA invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scientist to join a breakthrough robotics and medicine research group led by Michael Yip, Ph.D.

The role focuses on autonomous image-guided surgical robots, 3D computer vision, robot learning, humanoid robotics, and human-robot interaction, with opportunities to build and test systems on benchtop and model environments.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in robotics and computer vision research, implemented on real-life systems (required).
• Proven track record of publications as first-author (as well as co-author) papers in robotics, computer vision, and/or machine learning: ICRA, IROS, RSS, T-RO, CoRL, IJRR, CVPR, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, MICCAI, TBME, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, Nature portfolio and Science portfolio.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills.
• Experience with autonomous robot control and planning; robot learning; humanoid robotics; 3D computer vision; SLAM; medical image-guided robotics; pHRI.
• Highly motivated and able to work independently on research projects.
• Experience with experimental protocols and operation of specialized equipment; knowledge of safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Produces groundbreaking research in design, methods and theory around surgical robotic autonomy.
• Disseminates research in authored publications at top venues in biomedical engineering, robotics, machine learning and medicine.
• Leads subteams of scientists and engineers in developing next-generation surgical robotics technologies.
• Implements and trials autonomous robotics and navigation systems on hardware in benchtop and model environments.
• Trains staff researchers and fellows.
• May assist in preparing grant proposals, submissions, publications and presentations.
• Analyzes, interprets, summarizes and compiles data.
• Assists in day-to-day laboratory activities.
• Operates and maintains equipment and instruments.

Skills

Robotics research

Computer vision research

Publications track record

Analytical skills

Independent work

Experimentation & data analysis

Education

PhD or MD/PhD in Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Cedars-Sinai in West Hollywood, CA invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scientist to join a breakthrough robotics and medicine research group led by Michael Yip, Ph.D.

The role focuses on autonomous image-guided surgical robots, 3D computer vision, robot learning, humanoid robotics, and human-robot interaction, with opportunities to build and test systems on benchtop and model environments.