Nabil Zemiti

#### **Zemiti Nabil** Associate Professor - HDR Montpellier University Laboratoire LIRMM - UMR 5506 - Département Robotique 161 rue Ada 34095 - Montpellier Cedex 5 - France Bureau : 1.45 - case courrier : CC477 Phone: +33 4 67 41 86 78 Emails: nabil.zemiti@lirmm.fr nabil.zemit@umontpellier.fr Team/Dep: DEXTER team - Robotics Department Short Bio: ---------- I'm currently Associate Professor at the Robotics Department of the LIRMM Lab., University of Montpellier (UM). My research and teaching interests are computer assisted medical interventions and sensor based control for robotic manipulators. In this topic, I serve as a guest lecturer at Central-Supélec since 2010. Since the beginning of my career (2008), I regularly supervises Master thesis and co-supervises Doctoral thesis and Post-docs. I'm also co-organizer with P. Poignet of [ the European Summer Schools in Surgical Robotics](https://www.lirmm.fr/sssr-2019/ "SSSR") since 2013. Since 2017, I'm in charge of the surgical robotics translational research activities and platforms at the Medical School of Montpellier [ROBMED](https://www.lirmm.fr/robmed-plateforme "SSSR"). Since 2019, I'm deputy director of Labex Numev, member of the management-board of Labex CAMI (since 2012), member of the Scientific and Pedagogic Committee (CPS) and co-leader of the integrated project (IP) "Computer Assisted and Robotized Surgery " of Labex NUMEV (since 2016). ### About my PhD Thesis From October 2001 until September 2006, I was a Ph.D. student and researcher at the[ Robotics Lab. of Paris (LRP)](http://www.isir.upmc.fr/ "ISIR") - Paris 6 University, Paris, France, I great lab to work at! The main results of this work are: - Design of a force controlled laparoscopic surgical robot without distal force sensing ; - Force control of kinematically constrained manipulators (defective robots) using the passivity approach ; - Validation of the force control scheme during in-vivo and in-vitro experiments ; - Force feedback teleoperation of the designed surgical robot. ### About my Post-Doc From October 2006 until August 2008, I was a Post doctoral Fellow at the[ TIMC-IMAG Laboratory (CAMI team)](https://www-timc.imag.fr/en/gmcao "TIMC-IMAG") - Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France. Really a great lab to work at too! Within the CAMI team, I was involved in several robotic projects, mainly in the area of interventional radiology and image guided percutaneous interventions. The main results of these projects are: - Design and control of a CT and MR-compatible puncture robot; - Design of an Ultrasound-Guided Robotic Brachytherapy Needle-Insertion System. ### Current research activities (Under construction) #### Medical and surgical gestures guidance ##### Augmented Reality Assistance for Robotized Tumor Resection Gesture: applications to tongue-base and digestive surgeries - PhD Thesis Jun Shen (2015-2019) - [Labex CAMI](http://cami-labex.fr/ "Labex CAMI") - Supervisors : Philippe Poignet & Nabil Zemiti & Jean-Louis Dillenseger (LTSI, Univ. Rennes) - Medical Collaborators/Supervisors : Renaud Garrel PU-PH (ENT Department, CHU Montpellier) & Philippe Rouanet PU-PH (ICM Val d’Aurelle, Montpellier) - Medical collaborators/Master students: L. Abramovici & A. Viquesnel (ENT Department, CHU Montpellier), Ch.Taoum (Cancer Institute of Montpellier - ICM Val d’Aurelle, Montpellier) ##### Optimisation of fusion Imaging for real-time US with CT for intra-cochlear navigation (OPTIFUSION Project 2018-2021) - PhD Thesis Lucas Lavenir - Funded by "Agir pour l'Audition" Foundation - Supervisors: Philippe Poignet & Nabil Zemiti - Medical collaborator/Supervisor: Frederic Venail, PU-PH, ENT Dep. CHU Montpellier ##### Robot-assisted Cranio-Maxillo-Facial surgery (MedMax1 & MedMax2 Projects 2017-2019) - Funded by "Gueules Cassées" Foundation - Supervisors: Philippe Poignet & Nabil Zemiti & Dr. M De Boutray - Medical collaborators/Master students: Dr. A. Damécourt & Dr. M De Boutray (CMF Department– CHU Montpellier) ##### Robot-assisted and Augmented Reality-based Shoulder surgery - Supervisors: Philippe Poignet, Nabil Zemiti & Gérard Subsol - Medical Collaborator/Supervisor: Pr B. COULET, M.D; Ph.D (Service de Chirurgie de la Main, du Membre Supérieur CHU Lapeyronie, UFR Médecine, UM) - Medical collaborator/Master student: Dr. P-E Chammas (Resident in Orthopedic surgery - CHU Montpellier) ##### Artificial palpation elastography for increased perception in transoral tongue base cancer surgery - PhD Thesis of Laure Koebel ([I-Site Muse](https://muse.edu.umontpellier.fr/ "Isite Muse") - UM) 2018-2021 - Supervisors: Yassine Haddab & Nabil Zemiti - Medical Collaborator/Supervisor: Pr. Renaud Garrel, PU-PH, ENT Dep. CHU Montpellier #### Gesture learning, training and evaluation ##### PhD Fabien Despinoy ([CAMI Labex](http://cami-labex.fr/ "CAMI Labex"), Collaboration between LIRMM and LTSI Rennes) - [Unsupervised trajectory segmentation for surgical gesture recognition in robotic training](https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2015.2493100) - [Evaluation of Contactless Human-Machine Interface for Robotic Surgical Training](https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11548-017-1666-6) ##### Post-doc Gustavo Gil (CAMI Labex, Collaboration between LIRMM and LTSI Rennes) - [How to enhance learning of robotic surgery gestures? A tactile cue saliency investigation for 3D hand guidance ("Best poster Award at *Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics*")](https://hal-lirmm.ccsd.cnrs.fr/lirmm-02093730 "Gil et al halmyn") ##### PhD mobility of [Miss Juie Walker ](https://juliemwalker.wixsite.com/home)([Chateaubriand Fellowship Program](https://www.chateaubriand-fellowship.org/)) Collaboration with [Pr. Allison Okamura](http://charm.stanford.edu/Main/AllisonOkamura) (Charm Lab. Stanford Uni.) Sep 2017-March 2018 - [Holdable Haptic Device for 4-DOF Motion Guidance ](https://hal-lirmm.ccsd.cnrs.fr/lirmm-02093717 "Walker et al IEEE haptics") #### Design and control of medical devices ##### Robotized Flexible Ureteroscopy and Active Vision-Based Physiological Motion Compensation - CIFRE PhD Thesis D. Cavard (2015/18) - Supervisors : Philippe Poignet & Nabil Zemiti - Medical Collaborators CHU Nîmes: Stéphane Droupy Armand Chevrot - Industriel Partners: Sterlab (MxM Company) - CE marked robot in May 2018 ### Past research projects (since 2008) - ##### Araknes (FP7 UE project - 05/2008 - 04/2012) - ##### UScomp (ANR ContInt - 03/2009 - 02/2012 ) - ##### ROBACUS (ANR TecSan - 03/2012 - 08/2016)

#### **Zemiti Nabil**, Maître de Conférences - HDR Université de Montpellier Laboratoire LIRMM - UMR 5506 - Département Robotique 161 rue Ada 34095 - Montpellier Cedex 5 - France Bureau : 1.45 - case courrier : CC477 Phone: +33 4 67 41 86 78 Emails: nabil.zemiti@lirmm.fr nabil.zemit@umontpellier.fr Team/Dep: DEXTER team - Robotics Department