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Melody Su

Publication

Su, Y.H., Huang, K., & Hannaford, B. (2021). Multicamera 3D Viewpoint Adjustment for Robotic Surgery via Deep Reinforcement Learning. Journal of Medical Robotics Research (2021): 2140003. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2424905X21400031

Su, Y.H.; Jiang, W.; Chitrakar, D.; Huang, K.; Peng, H.; Hannaford, B. Local Style Preservation in Improved GAN-Driven Synthetic Image Generation for Endoscopic Tool Segmentation. Sensors 2021, 21, 5163. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21155163

Su, Y.H., Huang, K., & Hannaford, B. (2020). Multicamera 3D Reconstruction of Dynamic Surgical Cavities: Autonomous Optimal Camera Viewpoint Adjustment. 2020 International Symposium On Medical Robotics (ISMR). https://doi.org/10.1109/ismr48331.2020.9312951  

Su, Y.H., Sosnovskaya, Y., Hannaford, B., & Huang, K. (2020). Securing Robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery through Perception Complementarities. 2020 Fourth IEEE International Conference On Robotic Computing (IRC). https://doi.org/10.1109/irc.2020.00013  

Su, Y.H., Munawar, A., Deguet, A., Lewis, A., Lindgren, K., & Li, Y. et al. (2020). Collaborative Robotics Toolkit (CRTK): Open Software Framework for Surgical Robotics Research. 2020 Fourth IEEE International Conference On Robotic Computing (IRC). https://doi.org/10.1109/irc.2020.00014 

Kushya Sugarman

Publication

Sugarman, K. (2025). “I’m just becoming okay with being incomplete”: how an international, multiracial teacher research group pursued a nonexclusionary whole through storywork. Journal for Multicultural Education.

Schieble, M., Hikida, M., Taylor, L., Vetter, A., Hodnett, K., & Sugarman, K. (2025). A Reconstructive Stance to Analyzing Op-Ed Writing as Resistance to “Divisive Concepts” Legislation. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 23813377251358189.

Sugarman, K. (2024). Picturing Refusal: How a Multimodal, Collaborative Assignment Allowed a Teacher Education Class to Develop Abolitionist Pedagogies, Theory, Research, and Action in Urban Education, 9 (1).

Rifino, M., & Sugarman, K. (2022). Loneliness through the lens of Black feminist love-politics: pedagogical practices amid pandemic online learning. Journal for Multicultural Education, 16(1), 90-101.

Geoffrey S. Sumi

Publication

Sumi, G. S. (2021). Spectatorship, Control, and Collective Groups. In A. Futrell and T. Scanlon (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (pp. 603–13). Oxford University Press.