Juo-Tung (Justin) Chen
Juo-Tung (Justin) Chen
I am a PhD Student @ Johns Hopkins University in Mechanical Engineering, advised by Axel Krieger in the Intelligent Medical Robotic Systems and Equipment Lab (IMERSE).
I received my Master's degree in Robotics from Johns Hopkins University and my Bachelor's degree in Biomechatronics Engineering from National Taiwan University. During my masters, I worked in Intuitive Computing Lab advised by Chien-Ming Huang, and during my undergrad, I worked in Robots and Medical Mechatronics Lab (RMML) advised by Ping-Lang Yen.
Research Interest
My research sits at the intersection of surgical robotics and robot learning, with a focus on building autonomous surgical systems. I am driven by the following questions:- How can we train surgical foundation models that generalize across procedures, robot platforms, and institutions by scaling multi-modal data collection?
- How can hierarchical imitation learning enable robots to complete long-horizon surgical tasks that require both high-level reasoning and precise low-level control?
- How can surgical tool pose estimation from monocular video unlock large-scale pretraining data for surgical foundation models — by recovering kinematics from the vast amounts of existing surgical footage that lack robot state recordings?
