I am a Senior Robotics Engineer at Takeda Pharmaceutical. I am a member of the High Throughput Experimentation and Automation team under the Synthetic Molecule Process Development group and am currently working on a several projects involving customized automation workflows utilizing robot arm (Universal Robots, ABB YuMi) platforms for pharmaceutical experimentation processes, such as oligopeptide spectroscopy and crystallization analysis.

I received my PhD in Robotics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2023. I was a part of the Medical Robotics and Automation (RoboMed) Laboratory under Professor Jaydev P. Desai. My research was in the field of rehabilitative/assitive robotics, and I worked on a soft robotic hand exoskeleton intended to assist individuals with spinal cord injury. I have collaborated with researchers at the Emory University Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, the Georgia Institute of Technology Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and clinicians at the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Philadelphia. I am interested in the modeling, control, and design of robots, especially for soft robots, as well as additive manufacturing and fabrication.

Please contact me at phillip[dot]tran28[at]gmail[dot]com for any questions about my research and/or my interests.