Yafei Ou and Mahdi Tavakoli. Autonomous soft-tissue needle steering using reinforcement learning guided by human input. Journal of Medical Robotics Research (JMRR). World Scientific Publishing Company, 2024.

Yafei Ou, Abed Soleymani, Xingyu Li, and Mahdi Tavakoli. Autonomous blood suction for robot-assisted surgery: A sim-to-real reinforcement learning approach. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), volume 9, pages 7246–7253. IEEE, 2024.

Abed Soleymani, Mahdi Tavakoli, Aghazadeh Farzad, Yafei Ou, Rouhani Hossein, Bin Zheng, and Xingyu Li. Hands collaboration evaluation for surgical skills assessment: An information theoretical approach. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics (T-MRB). IEEE, 2024.

Teng Li, Amir Zakerimanesh, Yafei Ou, Badre Armin, and Mahdi Tavakoli. Iterative learning for gravity compensation in impedance control. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), pages 1–12. World Scientific Publishing Company, 2024.

Yafei Ou, Sadra Zargarzadeh, and Mahdi Tavakoli. Robot learning incorporating human interventions in the real world for autonomous surgical endoscopic camera control. Journal of Medical Robotics Research (JMRR), volume 8, pages 2340004–1, 2023.

Yafei Ou and Mahdi Tavakoli. Sim-to-real surgical robot learning and autonomous planning for internal tissue points manipulation using reinforcement learning. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), volume 8, pages 2502–2509. IEEE, 2023.

Yafei Ou, Sadra Zargarzadeh, Paniz Sedighi, and Mahdi Tavakoli. A realistic surgical simulator for non-rigid and contact-rich manipulation in surgeries with the da vinci research kit. In 21st International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR). IEEE, 2024.

Yafei Ou and Mahdi Tavakoli. Towards safe and efficient reinforcement learning for surgical robots using real-time human supervision and demonstration. In 2023 International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR), pages 1–7. IEEE, 2023.

Sadra Zargarzadeh, Maryam Mirzaei, Yafei Ou, and Mahdi Tavakoli. From decision to action in surgical autonomy: Multi-modal large language models for robot-assisted blood suction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.07806, 2024. submitted.

Abed Soleymani, Yafei Ou, Xingyu Li, and Mahdi Tavakoli. Vaps: Encoding of human movement characteristics for dexterous robot trajectory generation. 2024. in progress.

Yi Hu, Yafei Ou, August Sieben, Zahra Samadikhoshkho, Bin Zheng, and Mahdi Tavakoli. Surgical robot learning from imperfect demonstrations. 2024. submitted.