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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
82
Citations
27194
World Ranking
460
National Ranking
213

Computer Science

D-Index
78
Citations
26422
World Ranking
1199
National Ranking
637

Blake Hannaford publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Blake Hannaford sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 417 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Blake Hannaford D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Blake Hannaford sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to haptic interfaces and telerobotic systems.

Overview

Blake Hannaford is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields including Medicine, Engineering, and Computer Science, with a total of 28 publications in Medicine, 23 in Engineering, and 17 in Computer Science.

Their work explores diverse subfields such as Surgery, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Surgery and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition each account for 14 publications, Biomedical Engineering has 12, while Aerospace Engineering and Public Health-related topics have 4 publications each.

Key research topics that Blake Hannaford has contributed to include Surgical Simulation and Training, Soft Robotics and Applications, Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization, Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, Medical Image Segmentation Techniques, Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection, and Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning. Among these, Surgical Simulation and Training is the most prominent topic with 20 related publications, followed by Soft Robotics and Applications with 14.

They have authored or co-authored significant papers such as:

  • "A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020" (2021), published in Science Robotics
  • "Towards Better Surgical Instrument Segmentation in Endoscopic Vision: Multi-Angle Feature Aggregation and Contour Supervision" (2020), published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "Modeling Cable-Driven Robot With Hysteresis and Cable-Pulley Network Friction" (2020), published in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
  • "The Future of Skull Base Surgery: A View Through Tinted Glasses" (2020), published in World Neurosurgery
  • "Multi-Frame Feature Aggregation for Real-Time Instrument Segmentation in Endoscopic Video" (2021), published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Their frequent co-authors include Randall A. Bly, Kris S. Moe, Yangming Li, Haonan Peng, and Yun-Hsuan Su. Collaborations with these researchers have led to multiple joint publications.

Blake Hannaford has published extensively in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University) with 8 publications, Journal of Medical Robotics Research with 3, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters with 2, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery with 2, and Cardiovascular Digital Health Journal with 2 publications.

In recognition of their contributions, Blake Hannaford was named an IEEE Fellow in 2006 for their work on haptic interfaces and telerobotic systems.

Best Publications

  • Measurement and modeling of McKibben pneumatic artificial muscles

    Ching-Ping Chou;B. Hannaford

  • A design framework for teleoperators with kinesthetic feedback

    B. Hannaford

  • Time domain passivity control of haptic interfaces

    B. Hannaford;Jee-Hwan Ryu

  • Stable haptic interaction with virtual environments

    R.J. Adams;B. Hannaford

  • A hybrid discriminative/generative approach for modeling human activities

    Jonathan Lester;Tanzeem Choudhury;Nicky Kern;Gaetano Borriello

  • Time domain passivity control of haptic interfaces

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  • Stable teleoperation with time domain passivity control

    Jee-Hwan Ryu;Dong-Soo Kwon;B. Hannaford

  • Performance evaluation of a six-axis generalized force-reflecting teleoperator

    B. Hannaford;L. Wood;D.A. McAffee;H. Zak

  • Static and dynamic characteristics of McKibben pneumatic artificial muscles

    Ching-Ping Chou;B. Hannaford

  • Force-reflection and shared compliant control in operating telemanipulators with time delay

    W.S. Kim;B. Hannaford;A.K. Fejczy

  • Force controlled and teleoperated endoscopic grasper for minimally invasive surgery-experimental performance evaluation

    J. Rosen;B. Hannaford;M.P. MacFarlane;M.N. Sinanan

  • McKibben artificial muscles: pneumatic actuators with biomechanical intelligence

    G.K. Klute;J.M. Czerniecki;B. Hannaford

  • A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020.

    Pierre E. Dupont;Bradley J. Nelson;Michael Goldfarb;Blake Hannaford

  • Raven-II: An Open Platform for Surgical Robotics Research

    B. Hannaford;J. Rosen;D. W. Friedman;H. King

  • Markov modeling of minimally invasive surgery based on tool/tissue interaction and force/torque signatures for evaluating surgical skills

    J. Rosen;B. Hannaford;C.G. Richards;M.N. Sinanan

  • The RAVEN: Design and Validation of a Telesurgery System

    Mitchell J. H. Lum;Diana C. W. Friedman;Ganesh Sankaranarayanan;Hawkeye King

  • Roles of the elements of the triphasic control signal.

    Blake Hannaford;Lawrence Stark

  • Stable teleoperation with time-domain passivity control

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  • Generalized approach for modeling minimally invasive surgery as a stochastic process using a discrete Markov model

    J. Rosen;J.D. Brown;L. Chang;M.N. Sinanan

  • Artificial Muscles: Actuators for Biorobotic Systems

    Glenn K. Klute;Joseph M. Czerniecki;Blake Hannaford

  • Stability and performance tradeoffs in bi-lateral telemanipulation

    B. Hannaford

  • Experimental and simulation studies of hard contact in force reflecting teleoperation

    B. Hannaford;R. Anderson

  • The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet

    Ken Goldberg;Hubert Dreyfus;Alvin Goldman;Oliver Grau

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacob Rosen
Jacob Rosen University of California, Los Angeles
Jee-Hwan Ryu
Jee-Hwan Ryu Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Lawrence Stark
Lawrence Stark University of California, Berkeley
Howard Jay Chizeck
Howard Jay Chizeck University of Washington
Eric J. Seibel
Eric J. Seibel University of Washington
Kenji Kawashima
Kenji Kawashima University of Tokyo
Gaetano Borriello
Gaetano Borriello University of Washington
Stephen R. Ellis
Stephen R. Ellis Ames Research Center
Hyouk Ryeol Choi
Hyouk Ryeol Choi Sungkyunkwan University
Gerd Hirzinger
Gerd Hirzinger German Aerospace Center

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