# Research Journey

## Current interests and questions

Autonomous surgical robotics, Simulation, Differentiable physics, Robot learning, Sim-to-real, Agents, Agent reliability, Post-training, Evaluation

## Simulation for surgical robotics

Status: in-progress. Year: not supplied.

GPU-accelerated soft-body mechanics, differentiable physics, and graph-based models for surgical-robotics research at Johns Hopkins.

How can simulation connect models of soft tissue with observations of the physical world?

Areas: XPBD, NVIDIA Warp, Soft-body mechanics, Differentiable physics, GNNs, Real-world calibration

[Read the research note](http://localhost:3000/research/soft-body-simulation)

Exact citation not yet supplied.

## Finding entities in language

Status: archived. Year: not supplied.

Entity extraction and classification research at the University of Auckland, using CLAVIN and Stanford NER.



Areas: NLP, Entity extraction, Classification

[Read the research note](http://localhost:3000/research/entity-extraction)

Exact citation not yet supplied.

## Skin-disease detection

Status: published. Year: not supplied.

Published research in skin-disease detection. This is a topic label; the exact publication title and citation have not yet been added.



Areas: Machine learning, Skin-disease detection

[Read the research note](http://localhost:3000/research/skin-disease-detection)

Exact citation not yet supplied.

## AI advertisement generation

Status: published. Year: not supplied.

Published research involving advertisement generation and Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks. This is a topic label pending the exact title and citation.



Areas: Generative systems, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

[Read the research note](http://localhost:3000/research/advertisement-generation)

Exact citation not yet supplied.