I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital. I conduct research with Professor Pierre E. Dupont in the Dupont Laboratory and am currently working on a robotic platform for automating the operation of tendon-controlled steerable surgical catheters, focusing on applications for cardiac operations and procedures.

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.