Alan Kuntz

Assistant Professor, Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah

Joined

February 2024

Names

Alan Kuntz (Preferred)

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Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah (utah.edu)

2020 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Ron Alterovitz

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Publications

Early Failure Detection in Autonomous Surgical Soft-Tissue Manipulation via Uncertainty Quantification
Jordan Thompson, Anthony Le, Daniel S. Brown, Alan Kuntz
- OOD Workshop @ RSS2025
- Readers: Everyone
Accounting for Hysteresis in the Forward Kinematics of Nonlinearly-Routed Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots via a Learned Deep Decoder Network
Brian Y. Cho, Daniel S. Esser, Jordan Thompson, Bao Thach, Robert Webster, Alan Kuntz
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- Readers: Everyone
Uncertainty Aware Forward and Inverse Kinematics for Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots via Mixture Density Networks
Jordan Thompson, Brian Y. Cho, Daniel S. Brown, Alan Kuntz
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Modeling Kinematic Uncertainty of Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots via Mixture Density Networks
Jordan Thompson, Brian Y. Cho, Daniel S. Brown, Alan Kuntz
- International Symposium on Medical Robotics
- Readers: Everyone
Agreement Volatility: A Second-Order Metric for Uncertainty Quantification in Surgical Robot Learning
Jordan Thompson, Britton Jordan, Daniel S. Brown, Alan Kuntz
- CoRL 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
General-purpose foundation models for increased autonomy in robot-assisted surgery
Samuel Schmidgall, Ji Woong Kim, Alan Kuntz, Ahmed Ezzat Ghazi, Axel Krieger
- Published: 01 Jan 2024, Last Modified: 06 Feb 2024
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Autonomous medical needle steering in vivo
Alan Kuntz, Maxwell Emerson, Tayfun Efe Ertop, Inbar Fried, Mengyu Fu, Janine Hoelscher, Margaret Rox, Jason A. Akulian, Erin A. Gillaspie, Yueh Z. Lee, Fabien Maldonado, Robert J. Webster III, Ron Alterovitz
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 02 Nov 2023
- Sci. Robotics 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Safer Motion Planning of Steerable Needles via a Shaft-to-Tissue Force Model
Michael Bentley, Caleb Rucker, Chakravarthy Reddy, Oren Salzman, Alan Kuntz
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 06 Feb 2024
- J. Medical Robotics Res. 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Toward Continuum Robot Tentacles for Lung Interventions: Exploring Folding Support Disks
Margaret Rox, Daniel S. Esser, Mariana E. Smith, Tayfun Efe Ertop, Maxwell Emerson, Fabien Maldonado, Erin A. Gillaspie, Alan Kuntz, Robert J. Webster III
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 06 Feb 2024
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Asymptotically optimal inspection planning via efficient near-optimal search on sampled roadmaps
Mengyu Fu, Alan Kuntz, Oren Salzman, Ron Alterovitz
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 02 Nov 2023
- Int. J. Robotics Res. 2023
- Readers: Everyone

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