People

 

Principal Investigator

David B. Camarillo is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering and Neurosurgery (by courtesy) at Stanford University. Dr. Camarillo holds a B.S.E in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University, a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and completed postdoctoral fellowships in Biophysics at the UCSF and Biodesign Innovation at Stanford. 

Dr. Camarillo worked in the surgical robotics industry at Intuitive Surgical and Hansen Medical, before launching his laboratory at Stanford in 2012. His current research focuses on precision human measurement for multiple clinical and physiological areas including the brain, heart, lungs, and reproductive system. Dr. Camarillo has been awarded the Hellman Fellowship, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program award, among other honors including multiple best paper awards in brain injury and robotic surgery. His research has been funded by the NIH, NSF, DoD, as well as corporations and private philanthropy. His lab’s research has been featured on NPR, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Science News, ESPN, and TED.com as well as other media outlets aimed at education of the public. Professional page

Awards:

• 2018 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Lexington,MA
• 2017 Best Paper Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (450 papers in volume)
• 2016 Editor’s Choice Award, Annals of Biomedical Engineering (300 papers in volume)
• 2016 Young Investigator Program award, Office of Naval Research
• 2015 Reviewer’s Top Choice 5% Award at BMES, San Antonio, TX
• 2015 Hellman Faculty Scholar
• 2015 Tashia and John Morgridge Endowed Faculty Scholarship in Pediatric Translational
• 2014 BMES Innovation and Career Development Award
• 2014 Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation workshop on continuum robotics, Hong Kong
• 2010 NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Training Fellow

Staff

Email: admin.camarillo@stanford.edu
Office address: 443 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305-4124

Graduate Students

Jessica Towns | MS Student, Bioengineering
Email: jtowns03@stanford.edu
Eduation: BS in Biomedical Engineering, Dusquesne University
Awards: NSF graduate Research Fellowship, Enhancing Diversty in Graduate Education (EDGE) Fellowship

 

 

 

Xianghao Zhan | MS Student, Bioengineering
Email:  xzhan96@stanford.edu
Education: BE in Automation and BA in English Language and Literature, Zhejiang University, China
Awards: Chinese Instrument and Control Society Fellow, Cambridge Trust International Scholarship, Chinese National Scholarship

 

Nicholas Cecchi | MS Student, Bioengineering
Email:  ncecchi@stanford.edu
Education: BS in Mechanical Engineering, UC Irvine, Stanford
Awards: Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Fellow, Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Fellow, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

 

Alumni

Enora Le Flao | Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering
Education: Ph.D in Biomechanics at AUT Sports Performance Research Institute, New Zealand
Awards: International Society of Biomechanics Travel Grant, International Society of Biomechanics Sport Student Research Grant, Poster Prize at the Société de Biomécanique conference, Poster Prize at the SpineFX Workshop on Research Management Skills for Biomedical Engineer

 

Yuzhe Liu | Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Education: Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics at Tsinghua University
Awards: National Scholarship, 2018 (China)

 

 

Sam Raymond | Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering
Current Position: Senior Machine Learning Engineer and Faculty Lecturer at Dartmouth 
Education: Ph.D. in Computational Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards: Shoji Award for Innovation in IT (2018)
Website: http://www.samraymond.com

Zhou Zhou | Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering
Current Position: Assistant Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Education: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Biomechanics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Awards: Marie Curie Fellow

 

Hossein Vahid Alizadeh| Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering
Current Position: 
Education: PhD in Electrical Engineering, McGill University
Website: http://www.hvahid.com

 

 

August Domel| Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering
Current Position: Director of Product & Chief Scientist, Force Impact Technologies, Inc.
Education:Ph.D. in Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering, Harvard University
Awards: Dudley Fellow, Peirce Fellow, Winston Chen Fellow, Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Advisory Board

 

Michael Fanton| PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist at Alife Health
Education: MS in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford
Awards:NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

 

 

Seyed Abdolmajid Yousefsani | Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Education: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Awards: IR National Elites Foundation, Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation (DMRCINT)

 

 

Jake Sganga | PhD Candidate, Bioengineering
Current Position: Cofounder & CTO, Surgical Robotics Startup
Education: PhD in Bioengineering at Stanford University
Awards: Siebel Scholar,  NIH Biotech Training Grant Fellow, Bio-X Bowes Fellow, James H. Clark Foundation Bioengineering Fellow

 

Lyndia Wu | PhD Candidate, Bioengineering
Current Position: Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia 
Education: PhD in Bioengineering, Stanford University
Awards: NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, Stanford Bio-X Graduate Fellow, Stanford Bioengineering Fellowship 

 

Michael Yip | PhD Candidate, Bioengineering 
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California at San Diego
Education:  PhD in Bioengineering, Stanford University

 

 

 

Mehmet Kurt | Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering
Current Position: Associate Professor at University of Washington
Education: PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Awards: Thrasher Research Foundation Early Career Award, Child Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship

Chiara Giordano | Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering
Current position: Algorithm Developer at Tobii AB 
Education: PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Biomechanics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

 

 

Calvin Kuo | PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering
Current Position: Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia
Education: PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

 

 

Lisa Su | MS Student, Mechanical Engineering
Current Position: Medical Student at UCLA 
Education: BS in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

 

 

 

 

Fidel Hernandez | PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering (2012-2016)
Current Position: Associate, McKinsey & Company 
Education: PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Awards:
NSF Graduate Fellow, Sloan Fellow, Bio-X Fellow

 

Choongsoo Shin | Associate Professor, Sogang University
Current position: Professor at Sogang University
Education: PhD in Biomechanical Engineering, Stanford University

 

 

 

Maria Malone | MS Student, Mechanical Engineering 
Current Position: Staff Engineer at Plenty
Education: MS in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

Vaibhav Nangia | MS Student, Mechanical Engineering 
Current Position: Hardware Engineer at Waymo 
Education: MS in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

Joe Schooler | Research Coordinator 
Current Position: Senior Product Manager in Advertising and Technology at Amazon  
Education: MS in Biomedical Imaging, University of California – San Francisco