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    Tao Shen

    College of Aeronautics & Engineering
    Assistant Professor
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    Kent
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    Email:
    tshen3@kent.edu
    Personal Website: AMRLab Website

    Biography

    Tao Shen, Ph.D., joined in Kent State University in Spring 2019. Before accepting the position at Kent State University, he worked as a postdoc in University of Alabama. He completed his Ph.D. degree at University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the field of robots for natural orifice transluminal endoscope surgery.

    During his academic studies and research, he participated in several robotic projects, such as parallel robots, serial robots, robot on UAV, robotic vision, surgical robots, and walking assistant robots. Now his primary research interests focus on medical robots, including surgical robots and walking assistant robots.

    Dr. Tao Shen is administrator of the Advanced Medical Robot Lab (AMRLab).

    Education

    University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, 2016

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