Michael C. Yip

Michael C. Yip is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, where he directs the Advanced Robotics and Controls Laboratory (ARCLab) and the Healthcare and Medical Robotics Collaboratory. His research focuses on surgical robotics, biomimetic robots, and robot learning, with particular emphasis on flexible robots for surgery, visual computation for image-guided robots, and AI for robot-human collaboration in surgical settings. He holds a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Stanford University, an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, and a B.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo.