2nd Symposium

Program

Program of the 2nd Symposium ·

09:00 → 17:45KST (UTC+9)

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2nd Symposium

2nd International Symposium of SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University

Thursday, 3 December 2026 (KST)

Date
Thursday, 3 December 2026 (KST)
Time (KST)
09:00–17:45 KST
Format
Online
Venue
Live on saihst.org
Theme
Physical AI in Medicine: From Recognition and Reasoning to Embodied Intelligence

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Schedule

2nd Symposium · Moderator Kyu-Hwan Jung, Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences & Technology (SAIHST), Sungkyunkwan University, KoreaTentative program: talk titles to be confirmed

All times KST (UTC+9)

Keynote speakers

Opening Keynote Lecture

Axel Krieger (to be confirmed)

Johns Hopkins University, USA

“Toward Autonomous Surgery: Learning Robots in the Operating Room”

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In the timetable: Opening Keynote Lecture

Closing Keynote Lecture

Nassir Navab

Technical University of Munich, Germany

“Dyadic Partnership (DP): A Missing Link Towards Full Autonomy in Medical Robotics”

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In the timetable: Closing Keynote Lecture

Timetable Thursday 3 December 2026

  1. –

    Registration

  2. Opening Opening Remarks

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    1. Opening Remarks

      Yun Sil Chang Director, Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences & Technology (SAIHST), Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

    2. Welcome Address

      Ji-Beom Yoo President, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

    3. Congratulatory Address

      Seung Woo Park President, Samsung Medical Center, Korea

  3. Keynote Opening Keynote Lecture

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    Chair
    Hong-Hee Won (SAIHST)
    1. –

      Toward Autonomous Surgery: Learning Robots in the Operating Room

      Axel Krieger (to be confirmed) Johns Hopkins University, USA

  4. Session I Embodied Intelligence for Autonomous Surgery

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    Chairs
    Kwangsun Yoo, Jeong Hoon Kim (SAIHST)
    1. –

      Physical AI for Healthcare: Digital Twins of the Operating Room

      Mathias Unberath Johns Hopkins University, USA

    2. –

      Imitation Learning for Autonomous Surgical Robots

      Ji Woong (Brian) Kim Stanford University, USA

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    Coffee Break

  6. Session II Embodiment: Surgical Robotics & Neuromorphic Sensing

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    Chairs
    Yoon-La Choi, Han-Na Kim (SAIHST)
    1. –

      Neuromorphic In-Sensor Computing for Physical AI

      Kyusang Lee University of Virginia, USA

    2. –

      From Articulated Instruments to Surgical Robots: Engineering Physical AI for the OR

      Soonyong Jung (to be confirmed) Head of Robot R&D, Livsmed, Korea

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    Lunch

  8. Session III Recognition: Surgical Video Analysis & Surgical Data Science

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    Chairs
    Jieun Lee, Danbee Kang (SAIHST)
    1. –

      Foundation Models for Surgical Video Understanding

      Yueming Jin (to be confirmed) National University of Singapore, Singapore

    2. –

      From Surgical Video Understanding to Embodied Surgical Intelligence

      Qi Dou (to be confirmed) The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  9. Session IV Reasoning: Foundation Models & Vision-Language AI for Surgery

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    Chairs
    Hyeon Ho Kim, Jihoon Jeong (SAIHST)
    1. –

      Multimodal Foundation Models for Clinical Decision Making

      Jong Chul Ye Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea

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      Foundation Models for Embodied Agents: Learning to Act from Video and Language

      Jinwoo Shin (to be confirmed) Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea

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    Coffee Break

  11. Session V Translation: From Lab to Operating Room

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    Chairs
    Jae Young Lee, Deok Hyun Han (SAIHST)
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      Intelligent Flexible Surgical Robots: Translating Research into Clinical Practice

      Hongliang Ren (to be confirmed) The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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      From Benchmarks to Bedside: Validating Surgical AI for Clinical Use

      Lena Maier-Hein (to be confirmed) German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany

  12. Keynote Closing Keynote Lecture

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    Chair
    Yoonjung Joo (SAIHST)
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      Dyadic Partnership (DP): A Missing Link Towards Full Autonomy in Medical Robotics

      Nassir Navab Technical University of Munich, Germany

  13. Closing Closing Remarks

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      Closing Remarks

      Kyu-Hwan Jung Chair of the Organizing Committee, SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

All times KST (UTC+9) unless your local time is shown.