Kesavadas Elected ASME Fellow

Thenkurussi Kesavadas, a UB faculty member since 1996 and director of UB’s Virtual Reality Lab, was elected to ASME “for outstanding engineering achievements.” He has published more than 125 papers in the areas of robotics and automation, haptics, virtual reality and medical simulation.  

Among his more recent projects, he collaborated with researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute to produce the Robotic Surgical Simulator (RoSS), which allows surgeons to practice skills needed to perform robot-assisted surgery without risk to patients. He co-founded Simulated Surgical Systems LLC to market RoSS and received the 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year award from UB.

He also co-founded Tactus Technologies, a local company that provides virtual reality, visualization and simulation products and services. Tactus Technologies developed a first-of-its-kind, virtual-reality training program for forklift operators, a product that is expected to reduce work-related injuries and deaths.

Kesavadas is an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.

Read the UB Reporter article.