2026 Noah J. Cowan: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	44	5756	5555	1607	1493	140	8424

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Overview

Noah J. Cowan is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on Neuroscience and Engineering.

The scientist's main areas of study include:

Neuroscience
Engineering

More specific subfields studied by Cowan involve:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Biomedical Engineering
Cell Biology

The core topics of Cowan's work cover:

Motor Control and Adaptation
Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
Action Observation and Synchronization
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Neural dynamics and brain function
Water Quality Monitoring Technologies

Cowan has contributed to numerous scholarly articles, with publications in several venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
arXiv (Cornell University)
eLife
Science Robotics
Nature Neuroscience

Significant recent publications by Cowan feature the following papers:

"De novo learning versus adaptation of continuous control in a manual tracking task," 2021, eLife
"Untethered unidirectionally crawling gels driven by asymmetry in contact forces," 2022, Science Robotics
"The Synergy Between Neuroscience and Control Theory: The Nervous System as Inspiration for Hard Control Challenges," 2020, Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems
"Cerebellar patients have intact feedback control that can be leveraged to improve reaching," 2020, eLife
"Control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow," 2024, Nature Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators in Cowan's research include:

Manu S. Madhav
Ravikrishnan P. Jayakumar
James Knierim
Debojyoti Biswas
Siming Deng

Best Publications

Nonholonomic Modeling of Needle Steering

Robert J. Webster;Jin Seob Kim;Noah J. Cowan;Gregory S. Chirikjian

869
Citations
Active cannula for biosensing and surgical intervention

ロバート，ジェームズウェブスター，;Robert James Webster;アリソン，エム．オカムラ，;Allison M Okamura

651
Citations
Mechanics of Precurved-Tube Continuum Robots

R.J. Webster;J.M. Romano;N.J. Cowan

570
Citations
Toward Active Cannulas: Miniature Snake-Like Surgical Robots

R.J. Webster;A.M. Okamura;N.J. Cowan

350
Citations
Nodal dynamics, not degree distributions, determine the structural controllability of complex networks.

Noah J. Cowan;Erick J. Chastain;Daril A. Vilhena;James S. Freudenberg

326
Citations
Visual servoing via navigation functions

N.J. Cowan;J.D. Weingarten;D.E. Koditschek

258
Citations
Equilibrium Conformations of Concentric-tube Continuum Robots

D. Caleb Rucker;Robert J. Webster;Gregory S. Chirikjian;Noah J. Cowan

250
Citations
Robot-Assisted Needle Steering

K. B. Reed;A. Majewicz;V. Kallem;R. Alterovitz

230
Citations
Diffusion-Based Motion Planning for a Nonholonomic Flexible Needle Model

Wooram Park;Jin Seob Kim;Yu Zhou;N.J. Cowan

216
Citations
Distal bevel-tip needle control device and algorithm

Robert J. Webster;Allison M. Okamura;Noah J. Cowan;Gregory Chirikjian

207
Citations
Image Guidance of Flexible Tip-Steerable Needles

V. Kallem;N.J. Cowan

161
Citations
Task-level control of rapid wall following in the American cockroach.

N. J. Cowan;J. Lee;R. J. Full

150
Citations
Robotic Needle Steering: Design, Modeling, Planning, and Image Guidance

Noah J. Cowan;Ken Goldberg;Gregory S. Chirikjian;Gabor Fichtinger

141
Citations
Mutually opposing forces during locomotion can eliminate the tradeoff between maneuverability and stability

Shahin Sefati;Izaak D. Neveln;Eatai Roth;Terence R. T. Mitchell

136
Citations
Feedback control as a framework for understanding tradeoffs in biology

Noah J. Cowan;Mustafa Mert Ankarali;Jonathan P. Dyhr;Manu S. Madhav

135
Citations
Modeling and Control of Needles With Torsional Friction

K.B. Reed;A.M. Okamura;N.J. Cowan

132
Citations
Flexible strategies for flight control: an active role for the abdomen

Jonathan P Dyhr;Kristi A Morgansen;Thomas L Daniel;Noah J Cowan

132
Citations
Recalibration of path integration in hippocampal place cells.

Ravikrishnan P. Jayakumar;Manu S. Madhav;Francesco Savelli;Hugh T. Blair

127
Citations
A comparative approach to closed-loop computation.

E Roth;S Sponberg;NJ Cowan

120
Citations
Vision-based follow-the-leader

N. Cowan;O. Shakerina;R. Vidal;S. Sastry

116
Citations
Integrated planning and image-guided control for planar needle steering

K.B. Reed;V. Kallem;R. Alterovitz;K. Goldbergxz

113
Citations
Nonholonomic Modeling of Needle Steering.

Robert J. Webster;Noah J. Cowan;Gregory S. Chirikjian;Allison M. Okamura

84
Citations