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About
Jungju Lee is a biomedical robotics researcher whose career has been dedicated to advancing the precision, safety, and sensory capabilities of surgical robotic systems. Working primarily at the intersection of medical robotics, force sensing, and minimally invasive surgery, Lee has made significant contributions to two distinct but complementary domains: orthopedic surgical robotics and haptic feedback systems for robotic surgery. Early in his career, Lee developed ARTHROBOT, a femur-mountable surgical robot designed for hip arthroplasty, introducing an innovative gauge-based registration method to improve positional accuracy and surface conformity during joint replacement procedures. This work, validated through experiments on sawbones and pig femurs, laid a practical foundation for robot-assisted orthopedic surgery and has accumulated over 40 combined citations. Lee's later research pivoted toward solving a critical limitation in minimally invasive robotic surgery — the complete loss of tactile feedback for surgeons. His most cited work (46 citations) introduced an optical fiber Bragg grating force-reflection sensor system, enabling safe, real-time force feedback in robotic surgical instruments. This innovation addresses a longstanding patient safety concern in robotic-assisted procedures. Across his body of work, Lee has consistently prioritized translating engineering ingenuity into tangible clinical improvements.
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- 6Development of a surgical robot for total hip arthroplasty2 citations · 2001
- 7Robot assisted orthopaedic surgery2 citations · 2001