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Education

• 2018 - present: Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
• 2013-2017:  B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering, NIT Surat, GJ, India. 

Past Experiences

• Summer 2018: Project Research Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, MH, India
• Summer 2017 - Spring 2018: Junior Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, MH, India
• Summer 2016: Robotics Institute Summer Scholar, The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University,  Pittsburgh, PA
• Winter 2015: Intern, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, TG, India
• Summer 2015: RuTAG Summer Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, UP, India

Research Interests

• Surgical Robotics
• Robotic Palpation
• Haptics

Peer-reviewed conference papers

• Neel Shihora, Nabil Simaan, "Induced Vertex Motion As a Performance Measure for Surgery in Confined Spaces", 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, 2023 
• Elan Ahronovich, Neel Shihora, Jin-Hui Shen, Karen Joos, Nabil Simaan, "Exploring An External Approach to Subretinal Drug Delivery via Robot Assistance and B-Mode OCT", 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, 2023
• Neel Shihora, Nabil Simaan, "Geometric Insights into Kinematically-Singular Configurations of Planar Continuum Robots", Advances in Robot Kinematics 2022. ARK 2022. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol 24. Springer
• Neel Shihora, Rashid Yasin, Ryan Walsh, Nabil Simaan, "Towards Semi-Automated Mechanical Thrombectomy: Path Planning Considerations for a Double Articulated Microcatheter", 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, 2021, pp. 1808-1814
• Colette Abah, Giuseppe Del Giudice, Neel Shihora, Rohan Chitale, Nabil Simaan, "Towards Semi-Automated Mechanical Thrombectomy: Path Planning Considerations for a Double Articulated Microcatheter," in The Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2019, pp. 67-68, June 2019.

Abstracts and Workshop presentations

• Neel Shihora, Ryan Walsh, Nabil Simaan, "Feasibility Study of Assistive Telemanipulation Methods for Identifying the Cricothyrotomy Landmark Using Robotic Palpation", in Rising Challenges to En Route Care and Patient Movement, Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS), 2021
• Neel Shihora, Rashid Yasin, Ryan Walsh, Nabil Simaan, "Semi-Autonomous Remote Landmark Identification for Cricothyrotomy using Robotic Palpation", IEEE workshop on Autonomous System in Medicine: Current Challenges in Design, Modeling, Perception, Control, and Applications, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020