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Ian Reyes is a researcher whose work spans two distinct but impactful domains: media studies and surgical robotics. In the field of media and communication, Reyes has examined the complex relationships between commercialized media systems, market pressures, and societal violence, contributing nuanced perspectives on how capitalist economies shape media behavior — work that has garnered attention within communication and media studies circles. More recently, Reyes has made significant strides in the rapidly evolving field of robot-assisted surgery, focusing on fine-grained activity recognition, surgical gesture analysis, and context inference. His contributions include developing temporal convolutional network approaches for recognizing surgical gestures from kinematic data, advancing automated gesture transcription to reduce the burden of manual labeling, and pioneering memory network architectures for real-time surgical context inference — capabilities critical for workflow analysis, skill assessment, and error detection in operating rooms. With citations accumulating across multiple 2023 publications, Reyes demonstrates a productive research trajectory at the intersection of machine learning and surgical autonomy. His interdisciplinary breadth, moving from media criticism to medical robotics, reflects a researcher unafraid to engage with complex, high-stakes problems across diverse fields.