Mythra V. Balakuntala
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
20
Citations
143
Est. group size
~2
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
7
Publishing since 2018
Mythra V. Balakuntala's research focuses on robotic surgery and medical robotics, particularly methods that let robots learn dexterous, contact-rich tasks (like tissue manipulation or ultrasound scanning) from human demonstration or coaching, and systems that allow semi-autonomous robot control when communication with a human operator is delayed, such as in telesurgery. Related work has also applied robotics to other practical problems like classroom air filtration during the COVID-19 pandemic and haptic simulation for endoscopy training.
Publication output has been irregular over the last decade, with a peak of activity around 2019 and 2021 followed by a slowdown in the most recent years.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Coaching a Robotic Sonographer: Learning Robotic Ultrasound With Sparse Expert’s Feedback
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics · 2024
- Learning Robotic Ultrasound through Coaching
2023
- ASAP-CORPS: A Semi-Autonomous Platform for COntact-Rich Precision Surgery
Military Medicine · 2023
- ASAP: A Semi-Autonomous Precise System for Telesurgery During Communication Delays
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics · 2023
- Occupant-centric robotic air filtration and planning for classrooms for Safer school reopening amid respiratory pandemics
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2021
- DESERTS: DElay-tolerant SEmi-autonomous Robot Teleoperation for Surgery
2021
- Learning Multimodal Contact-Rich Skills from Demonstrations Without Reward Engineering
2021
- Dexterous Skill Transfer between Surgical Procedures for Teleoperated Robotic Surgery
2021
- Enhancing Safety of Students with Mobile Air Filtration during School Reopening from COVID-19
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021
- Enhancing Safety of Students with Mobile Air Filtration during School Reopening from COVID-19
2021
- Learning Multimodal Contact-Rich Skills from Demonstrations Without\n Reward Engineering
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021
- SARTRES: a semi-autonomous robot teleoperation environment for surgery
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering Imaging & Visualization · 2020
- A Passive Universal Grasping Mechanism Based on an Everting Shell
Lecture notes in mechanical engineering · 2020
- DESK: A Robotic Activity Dataset for Dexterous Surgical Skills Transfer to Medical Robots
2019
- Extending Policy from One-Shot Learning through Coaching
2019
- arXiv (Cornell University)×5
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics×2
- Robotics and Autonomous Systems×1
- Mechanical Engineering×1
- Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering Imaging & Visualization×1
- Xin Ma
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Milton E. Aguirre
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Jiaming Fu
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Md Masudur Rahman
Medicine · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Laura H. Blumenschein
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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