Michael C. Yip

Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego

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July 2019

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Michael C. Yip

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Associate Professor

University of California, San Diego (ucsd.edu)

2015 – Present

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Publications

Differentiable rendering-based pose estimation for surgical robotic instruments
Zekai Liang, Zih-Yun Chiu, Florian Richter, Michael C. Yip
- 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- Readers: Everyone
Based: Bundle-adjusting surgical endoscopic dynamic video reconstruction using neural radiance fields
Shreya Saha, Zekai Liang, Shan Lin, Jingpei Lu, Michael C. Yip, Sainan Liu
- 2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
- Readers: Everyone
Ctrnet-x: Camera-to-robot pose estimation in real-world conditions using a single camera
Jingpei Lu, Zekai Liang, Tristin Xie, Florian Richter, Shan Lin, Sainan Liu, Michael C. Yip
- 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- Readers: Everyone
From Space to Time: Enabling Adaptive Safety with Learned Value Functions via Disturbance Recasting
Sander Tonkens, Nikhil Uday Shinde, Azra Begzadić, Michael C. Yip, Jorge Cortes, Sylvia Lee Herbert
- SAFE-ROL Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Back to Base: Towards Hands-Off Learning via Safe Resets with Reach-Avoid Safety Filters
Azra Begzadić, Nikhil Uday Shinde, Sander Tonkens, Dylan Hirsch, Kaleb Ugalde, Michael C. Yip, Jorge Cortes, Sylvia Lee Herbert
- SAFE-ROL Poster
- Readers: Everyone
JIGGLE: An Active Sensing Framework for Boundary Parameters Estimation in Deformable Surgical Environments
Nikhil Uday Shinde, Xiao Liang, Fei Liu, Yutong Zhang, Florian Richter, Sylvia Lee Herbert, Michael C. Yip
- CoRL 2025 RINO
- Readers: Everyone
Space to Time: Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Safety Filters via Temporal Disturbance Encoding
Sander Tonkens, Nikhil Uday Shinde, Azra Begzadić, Michael C. Yip, Jorge Cortes, Sylvia Lee Herbert
- OOD Workshop @ RSS2025
- Readers: Everyone
From Space to Time: Enabling Adaptive Safety with Learned Value Functions via Disturbance Recasting
Sander Tonkens, Nikhil Uday Shinde, Azra Begzadić, Michael C. Yip, Jorge Cortes, Sylvia Lee Herbert
- CoRL 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
MEDiC: Autonomous Surgical Robotic Assistance to Maximizing Exposure for Dissection and Cautery
Xiao Liang, Chung-Pang Wang, Nikhil Uday Shinde, Fei Liu, Florian Richter, Michael C. Yip
- Accepted at ICRA 2025
- Readers: Everyone
SURESTEP: An Uncertainty-Aware Trajectory Optimization Framework to Enhance Visual Tool Tracking for Robust Surgical Automation
Nikhil Uday Shinde, Zih-Yun Chiu, Florian Richter, Jason Lim, Yuheng Zhi, Sylvia Lee Herbert, Michael C. Yip
- IROS 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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