Dr. Ryu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU). He received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 2013 and worked for Boston Children’s Hospital as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School. His research is multidisciplinary, lying in the intersection of design, advanced machining, mechanics, materials, haptics, and robotics for biomedical applications. Particular interests include smarter and smaller robotic devices for endoscopic ear surgery.