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Arun Veeramani is a biomedical engineer and robotics researcher whose work sits at the compelling intersection of minimally invasive surgery, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and smart material actuators. His research has focused primarily on developing advanced robotic surgical tools and catheter systems designed to tackle some of the most challenging environments in medicine — including the interior of a beating human heart. Veeramani's most influential contributions center on the development of metal MEMS-fabricated robotic tools capable of performing tissue removal inside the beating heart, a technically demanding feat that demands both microscale precision and millimeter-scale structural integrity. These papers, garnering a combined 59 citations, demonstrated that fully assembled devices with micron-scale features could be fabricated and deployed robotically in dynamic cardiac environments, opening new possibilities for intracardiac surgery without stopping the heart. Earlier in his career, Veeramani pioneered work on Shape Memory Alloy (SMA)-actuated robotic catheters, exploring neural network-based control strategies to enable teleoperated cardiac ablation. This work addressed a critical limitation of conventional catheters — their inability to access anatomy beyond natural vasculature — pushing toward smarter, more adaptable surgical navigation systems that could transform cardiovascular intervention.