Alaa Eldin Abdelaal | Human Skill Augmentation in Robot-Assisted Surgery
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This workshop will cover how NVIDIA RAPIDS offers a seamless experience to enable GPU-acceleration for many existing data science tasks with zero code changes. You will learn how to use GPU-accelerated tools to conduct data science faster, leading to more scalable, reliable, and cost-effective results!

This workshop will cover how NVIDIA RAPIDS offers a seamless experience to enable GPU-acceleration for many existing data science tasks with zero code changes. You will learn how to use GPU-accelerated tools to conduct data science faster, leading to more scalable, reliable, and cost-effective results!
This session is specifically designed for full-time graduate students within one year of obtaining their PhD, as well as current postdoctoral scholars, fellows, and researchers.

This session is specifically designed for full-time graduate students within one year of obtaining their PhD, as well as current postdoctoral scholars, fellows, and researchers.
Save the Date. Artificial intelligence is transforming how researchers collect, analyze, and learn from data. As AI systems become increasingly integrated into scientific discovery, business decision-making, and policy analysis, they are reshaping both the questions researchers can ask and the methods they use to answer them.

Save the Date. Artificial intelligence is transforming how researchers collect, analyze, and learn from data. As AI systems become increasingly integrated into scientific discovery, business decision-making, and policy analysis, they are reshaping both the questions researchers can ask and the methods they use to answer them.
Robot-assisted surgery (RAS) has gained momentum over the last two decades with more than 2,500,000 RAS procedures performed in 2024 alone using the da Vinci Surgical System, the most widely used surgical robotics platform. RAS enables surgical approaches that reduce patient recovery time and make minimally invasive surgery more accessible and comfortable for physicians. Yet for all the advances it has brought, RAS basically replicates open surgery, through smaller incisions, ignoring many of the robot’s unique capabilities. For example, robots can have more than one pair of “eyes,” they can have more than two arms, and they can operate in two or more different locations at the same time. In this talk, Dr. Abdelaal will present examples of how leveraging these unique capabilities can augment humans’ skills as they use these systems, towards achieving superhuman performance.
