Student
Appointments and Affiliations
- Student
Contact Information
- Email Address: kent.yamamoto@duke.edu
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Research Interests
Steerable Surgical Tools, Continuum Robotics, Laser-Tissue Interactions, Surgical Simulation Models
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Graduate Research Fellowship Program. National Science Foundation . 2024
- Best Teaching Assistant - Fall 2023. Duke MEMS Department. 2023
- NSF-NRT Traineeship in Advancing Surgical Technologies (TAST) Fellow. Duke TAST. 2022
In the News
- 2024 Dean's Award: BOOST Beyond (Mar 19, 2024)
- Research Traineeship Programs Prepare the Next Generation of Engineers (Dec 8, …
Representative Publications
- Yamamoto, Kent K., Tanner J. Zachem, Pejman Kheradmand, Patrick Zheng, Jihad Abdelgadir, Jared Laurance Bailey, Kaelyn Pieter, Patrick J. Codd, and Yash Chitalia. “Tendon-Actuated Concentric Tube Endonasal Robot (TACTER).” Journal of Medical Robotics Research, June 23, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1142/s2424905x25500023.
- Yamamoto, Kent K., Tanner J. Zachem, Pejman Kheradmand, Patrick Zheng, Jihad Abdelgadir, Jared Laurance Bailey, Kaelyn Pieter, Patrick J. Codd, and Yash Chitalia. “Tendon-Actuated Concentric Tube Endonasal Robot (TACTER),” April 28, 2025.
- Yamamoto, Kent K., Tanner J. Zachem, Behnam Moradkhani, Yash Chitalia, and Patrick J. Codd. “Towards the Development of a Tendon-Actuated Galvanometer for Endoscopic Surgical Laser Scanning,” June 5, 2024.
- Moradkhani, Behnam, Pejman Kheradmand, Harshith Jella, Kent K. Yamamoto, Alireza Tofangchi, Patrick J. Codd, and Yash Chitalia. “An FBG-based Stiffness Estimation Sensor for In-vivo Diagnostics,” May 30, 2024.
- Yamamoto, Kent K., Timothy A. Brumfiel, Ronghuai Qi, Joshua J. Chern, and Jaydev P. Desai. “Preclinical Evaluation of a Novel Steerable Robotic Neuroendoscope Tool.” Operative Neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.) 26, no. 4 (April 2024): 389–95. https://doi.org/10.1227/ons.0000000000000976.