M. Cenk Cavusoglu

M. Cenk Cavusoglu

Nord Professor of Engineering

Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Case Western Reserve University

Director, Medical Robotics and Computer Integrated Surgery (MeRCIS) Laboratory

Professional Summary

M. Cenk Cavusoglu is the Nord Professor of Engineering in Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. He is also the director of the Medical Robotics and Computer Integrated Surgery (MeRCIS) Laboratory. His research focuses on medical robotics, haptics, human–machine interfaces, and control, spanning control, mechanism, and system design to AI-assisted interventions. He is a Fellow of AIMBE. He has led 12 federally funded projects as principal investigator, with a total budget over $12.6M, and has served on editorial boards for leading robotics and mechatronics journals. His work advances safe, precise, and intelligent robotic systems for surgery and image-guided interventions.
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Education

PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

2000

University of California, Berkeley

MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

1997

University of California, Berkeley

BS in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1995

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye

Interests

Robotics Haptics Medical Robotics Human–Machine Interfaces
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M. Cenk Cavusoglu is the Nord Professor of Engineering in Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), with secondary appointments in Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Computer and Data Sciences. He is the director of the Medical Robotics and Computer Integrated Surgery (MeRCIS) Laboratory at CWRU. He has been a faculty member at CWRU since 2002 and was appointed the Nord Professor of Engineering endowed chair in 2018.

Dr. Cavusoglu received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. He subsequently served as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the UC Berkeley EECS Department (2000-2002). He has held visiting positions as an Associate Professor at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkiye (2009-2010), and as a visiting researcher at the INRIA Rhone-Alpes Research Center, Grenoble, France (1998).

Dr. Cavusoglu is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). As a faculty member, Dr. Cavusoglu has participated in 21 federally funded research projects, supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and others. He has served as Principal Investigator on 12 research projects funded by U.S. federal funding agencies, with a total budget of more than $12.6M. He has also served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and as a Technical Editor for the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.

Dr. Cavusoglu’s research spans robotics and human-machine interfaces, with a particular emphasis on medical robotics and haptics. Over the past three decades, he has conducted research on all aspects of medical robotic systems, including control, mechanism and system design, human-machine interfaces, haptics, and surgical automation algorithms.