Jamie Paik | |
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Alma mater |
University of British Columbia Seoul National University |
Scientific career | |
Institutions |
Pierre and Marie Curie University École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Jamie Paik is a Canadian engineer who is a professor and director of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
Paik was born in Canada. [1] Her father is a scientist and her mother is a painter. [2] [1] She completed her bachelor's degree at University of British Columbia. [3] She majored in mechanical engineering. [3] She earned her PhD at Seoul National University, sponsored by Samsung Electronics. [4] Her PhD considered the limbs of anthropomorphic robots. [2]
Paik worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Pierre and Marie Curie University, where she worked on laparoscopic tools. JAIMY, a 5 mm size motorised robot, can be used to assist suturing during surgery. [2] It is available commercially through Endocontrol Medical. [2] [5] She joined Harvard University as a postdoctoral researcher, working with Erik Demaine, Daniela L. Rus and Robert Wood. [2]
In 2012, Paik founded the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. [1] [6] She is a member of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research. [2] [7] Her recent work focuses on robotic origami, robogami. [8] [4] She developed vacuum-powered Soft Pneumatic Actuators for compliant robotics. [9] [10] [11] She was an invited speaker at the Obama Administration's Women Inspire Innovation workshop in 2013. [12] She was a judge at the 2016 and 2018 Soft Robotics Toolkit competition. [13] She was a participant at the 2018 Science Foo Camp. She was a 2019 TED Conferences speaker. [14]