Timothy Kowalewski
Associate Professor and medical robotics technical leader
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Summary
Leader in medical robotics and surgical training research focused on objective skill assessment and safer surgery. umn+2
Academic entrepreneur who translates research into commercial training and assessment products. geekwire+2
Active researcher with publications on surgical data science, sensorized tools, robotic tool force/torque estimation, and crowd-sourced assessment. umn+2
Inventor on multiple patents stemming from lab research, contributing to device- and method-level intellectual property. umn
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
Method for Analyzing Surgical Technique Using Assessment Markers and Image Analysis (US Patent)
January 1, 2020U.S. patent on methods for analyzing surgical technique using assessment markers and image analysis; lists Timothy Kowalewski among inventors.
Transvascular Catheter Continuum Robot (US Patent)
January 1, 2020Patent listing that includes Timothy Kowalewski as an inventor for a transvascular catheter continuum robot (UMN-issued patent roll call entry).
Crowd-Sourced Assessment of Technical Skills: a novel method to evaluate surgical performance
January 1, 2014Describes development and validation of a web-based grading tool using crowdworkers (Mechanical Turk and Facebook) to assess robotic suturing performance, showing crowd assessments comparable to experienced surgeons for the tested task.
Real-time Quantitative Assessment of Surgical Skill (Dissertation)
January 1, 2012Doctoral dissertation focusing on methods for objective, real-time assessment of surgical skill using motion data and modeling techniques.