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Elan Ahronovich

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Education

  • 2019 - Present: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
  • 2015 - 2019: B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
  • 2010 - 2014: B.S., Biological Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Projects

  • Ocular Therapeutic Delivery Through Real-time Endoscopic B-scan OCT-guided Tools and Robotic Assistance
  • Multi-Scale Manipulation Parallel Mechanism with Twisted Wire Actuator Micro-Motion Actuation
  • Robotic Mediation for Skill Assessment and Training in Colonoscopy

Research Interests

  • Collaborative Surgical Robotics
  • Robot Design for Tasks with Micro-Anatomy

Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers

  • E.Z. Ahronovich, J.H. Shen, T. J. Vadakkan, R. Prasad, K.M. Joos, N. Simaan, "A five degree-of-freedom mechanical arm with remote center of motion (RCM) device for volumetric optical coherence tomography (OCT) retinal imaging," Biomedical Optics Express 15, 1150-1162 2024.
  • A.L. Orekhov, E.Z. Ahronovich, N. Simaan, "Lie Group Formulation and Sensitivity Analysis for Shape Sensing of Variable Curvature Continuum Robots With General String Encoder Routing," in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 2308-2324, June 2023, doi: 10.1109/TRO.2022.3232273.
  • E.Z. Ahronovich, N. Simaan, K.M. Joos, "A Review of Robotic and OCT-Aided Systems for Vitreoretinal Surgery," in Advances in Therapy. 2021

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

  • O. Richards, E.Z. Ahronovich, N. Shihora, A. Yildiz, J. Atoum, J.Y. Wu, K.L. Obstein, N. Simaan, "A Robotic Mediation Device for Skill Assessment and Training During Colonoscopy," in 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, UAE
  • E.Z. Ahronovich, N. Shihora, J.H. Shen, K. Joos and N. Simaan, "Exploring An External Approach to Subretinal Drug Delivery via Robot Assistance and B-Mode OCT," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 6795-6801, doi: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161441.
  • Y. Chang, E.Z. Ahronovich, N. Simaan and C. Song, "Exploring Robot-Assisted Optical Coherence Elastography for Surgical Palpation," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 4768-4774, doi: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160456.

Abstracts

  • O. Richards, E. Z. Ahronovich, N. Shihora, A. Yildiz, J. Atoum, J. Y. Wu, K. L. Obstein, and N. Simaan. "S868 A Novel Robotic Platform for Objective Technical Skill Assessment in Colonoscopy." Official journal of the American College of Gastroenterology| ACG 119, no. 10S (2024): S601.
  • E. Z. Ahronovich, J.H. Shen, K.M. Joos, and N. Simaan, 2023. A five degree-of-freedom remote center of motion device for stable volumetric OCT imaging of the retina. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 64(8), pp.3444-3444.