Ziyan Guo

A robotics scientist focused on innovating robotic devices for interventions requiring magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance, e.g. stereotactic neurosurgery and cardiac catheterization.

Ziyan received B.Eng in vehicle engineering from Tsinghua University and pursued PhD in surgical robotics in IRIS group at The University of Hong Kong. Her research interests involve surgical robots, image-guided interventions, and magnetic resonance-compatible devices. She was awarded the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (MIT TR Innovators under 35) for developing an intraoperative MRI-guided robot for bilateral stereotactic neurosurgery. Her work was also recognised in several prestigious awards, including Best Conference Paper Award in ICRA’18 (the largest robotics conference), First Place Prize Paper Award in TPEL 2017, and Best Live Demonstration Prize in Surgical Robot Challenge 2016, etc.

Selected publications

Journals:

[1] Z. Guo, Z. Dong, K.H. Lee, C.L. Cheung, H.C. Fu, J.D.L. Ho, H. He, W.S. Poon, D.T.M. Chan, K.W. Kwok. Compact Design of a Hydraulic Driving Robot for Intra-operative MRI-guided Bilateral Stereotactic Neurosurgery[J]. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2018, 3(3): 2515-2522.
[ICRA’18 Best Conference Paper Award]
[ICRA’18 Finalist of Best Medical Robotics Paper]

[2] Z. Guo, M.C.W. Leong, H. Su, K.W. Kwok, D.T.M. Chan, W.S. Poon. Techniques for Stereotactic Neurosurgery: Beyond the “Frame”, Towards the Intraoperative MRI-guided and Robot-assisted Approaches[J]. World Neurosurgery, 2018, 116: 77-87.

[3] Z. Dong, Z. Guo, K.H. Lee, G. Fang, W.L. Tang, H.C. Chang, D.T.M. Chan, K.W. Kwok. High-performance Continuous Hydraulic Motor for MR Safe Robotic Teleoperation[J]. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019, 4(2): 1964-1971.

[4] Y. Feng, Z. Guo, Z. Dong, X.Y. Zhou, K.W. Kwok, S. Ernst, S.L. Lee. An Efficient Cardiac Mapping Strategy for Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation with Active Learning[J]. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2017, 12(7): 1199-1207.

[5] Y. Sun, Z. Guo, J. Xu, X. Xu, C. Liu, Y. Li. A Candidate of Mechanical Energy Mitigation System: Dynamic and Quasi-static Behaviors and Mechanisms of Zeolite β/water System[J]. Materials & Design, 2015, 66: 545-551.

[6] K.H. Lee, D.K.C. Fu, Z. Guo, Z. Dong, M.C.W. Leong, C.L. Cheung, A.P.W. Lee, K.W. Kwok. MR-safe Robot Platform for MRI-guided Intra-cardiac Catheterization[J]. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2018, 23(2): 586-595.

[7] S.C. Tang, T.T.L. Lun, Z. Guo, K.W. Kwok, N. McDannold. Intermediate Range Wireless Power Transfer with Segmented Coil Transmitters for Implantable Heart Pumps[J]. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2017, 32(5): 3844-3857.
[First Place Prize Paper Award for 2017]

Peer-reviewed international conference proceedings/abstracts:

[8] Z. Guo, T.T.L. Lun, Y. Chen, H. Su, D.T.M. Chan and K.W. Kwok. Novel Design of an MR-safe Pneumatic Stepper Motor for MRI-guided Robotic Intervention, Proceedings of Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2016. Imperial College London and the Royal Geographical Society, London, pp.50-51.

[9] K.H. Lee, Z. Guo, G.C.T. Chow, Y. Chen, W. Luk, K.W. Kwok. GPU-based Proximity Query Processing on Unstructured Triangular Mesh Model[C]. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2015 (ICRA’15), pp.4405-4411.

[10] Z. Dong, Z. Guo, D.K.C. Fu, K.H. Lee, M.C.W. Leong, C.L. Cheung, A.P.W. Lee, W. Luk, K.W. Kwok. A Robotic Catheter System for MRI-guided Cardiac Electrophysiological Intervention, Proceedings ofICRA Workshop on Surgical Robot: Compliant, Continuum, Cognitive, and Collaborative (ICRA’17). Singapore.
[Best Poster Paper Award (Merit Prize)]

[11] S.C. Tang, T.T.L. Lun, Z. Guo, K.W. Kwok, N. McDannold. Mid-range wireless power transfer with segmented coil transmitters for implantable heart pumps[C]. IEEE International Workshop on Electromagnetics: Applications and Student Innovation Competition (iWEM), 2016: 1-3.

[12] C.L. Cheung, K.H. Lee, Z. Guo, Z. Dong, M.C.W. Leong, Y. Chen, A.P.W. Lee and K.W. Kwok. Kinematic-Model-free Positional Control for Robot-assisted Cardiac Catheterization, Proceedings of Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2016. Imperial College London and the Royal Geographical Society, London, pp.80-81.

Book chapter:

[13] Z. Guo, M.C.W. Leong, H. Su, K.W. Kwok, D.T.M. Chan, W.S. Poon. Prospective Techniques for MRI-guided Robot-assisted Stereotactic Neurosurgery in Handbook of Robotic and Image-guided Surgery, Elsevier, 2019, pp.803-826.