About Me

Duke University

PhD in Mechanical Engineering

Wake Forest University

BS in Engineering, 2022

Duke University

Research Advisor: Dr. Brian Mann

• Designing focused ultrasound therapy systems
• Indentifying nonlinear dynamics
• Developing safe robotic ultrasound imaging
• Writing ROS 2 libraries for robot arm control
• Creating surgical training simulators

North Carolina State University

Research Advisor: Dr. Hao Su

• Designed exoskeletons and humanoid robot systems
• Applied reinforcement learning for bipedal locomotion

Wake Forest University

Research Advisor: Dr. Saami Yazdani

• Developed ex-vivo peripheral simulating bioreactor
• Conducted drug-eluting stent pharmacokinetic experiments

Chen, D., Krinsky, C., Phillips, M., Allred, C., Khan, A., Liu, L.B., Christians, U., and Yazdani, S.K. "Design and use of an ex vivo peripheral simulating bioreactor system for pharmacokinetic analysis of a drug coated stent." Bioengineering & Translational Medicine 9, no. 2 (2024): e10618.

Chen, D., Martinez, D., and Taylor, T.H. "Design of a Low-Cost Autonomous Epipelagic Profiling System for Oceanic Research." In 2022 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS), pp. 79-84. IEEE, 2022.

Chen, D., Prakash, R., Chen, Z., Dias, S., Wang, V., Bridgeman, L., and Oca, S. "Design and Evaluation of a Compliant Quasi Direct Drive End-effector for Safe Robotic Ultrasound Imaging." arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.03086 (2024).

Ursillo, T., Lowry, K., Allred, C., Phillips, M., Liu, L.B., Chen, D., and Yazdani, S.K. "The Impact of Peripheral Vascular Motion on Acute Drug Retention of Intravascular Devices." Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology, 1-11.

Oladokun, O., Yamamoto, K., Chen, D., Triplett, L., Barter, S., Zheng, P., Ramirez-Martinez, M., Chari-Letts, D., Bang, J.J., Mann, B.P., Jackson, K.L., and Zani, S. "Development of a Reusable Low-Cost Modular Abdominal Simulation Environment for Minimally Invasive Surgical Training." Submitted to the Journal of Surgical Education.

Chari-Letts, D., Yamamoto, K., Oladokun, O., Chen, D., Triplett, L., Jackson, L., Codd, P., and Zani, S. "Development of Patient-specific and Dynamic ED Thoracotomy Model for Surgical Training." Presented at 2025 ACS Surgeons and Engineers.

Chen, D., Dan, M., Zhang, S., Dominguez, I., Shetty, V., Gao, W., Taylor, T.H., Ranjan, S., and Su, H. "Design and Control of an Open-Source Agile Bipedal Humanoid Robot with High-Torque Density Motors for Household Assistance." Presented at International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR), Georgia, USA, 2023.