Karthik Raghunathan

Duke Medical Center, Stanford University, Duke University

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Karthik Raghunathan’s research spans two distinct but impactful domains: perioperative medicine and human-robot interaction. In the clinical realm, he investigates analgesic strategies and postoperative outcomes for thoracic surgery patients. His highly cited 2021 study on gabapentinoids and pulmonary complications after thoracic surgery (13 citations) provides critical insights into medication risks, while his analysis of analgesic trends for lobectomy from 2009 to 2018 (6 citations) documents the evolving use of epidural and nonopioid pain management. These contributions help guide safer, evidence-based surgical care. In robotics and computer vision, Raghunathan’s work “Eye Spy: Improving Vision through Dialog” (2010, 10 citations) introduced an innovative approach to robot learning. Rather than requiring traditional supervised training with annotated images, his system enables robots to learn about new objects through natural dialogue with humans—a more intuitive and efficient interface for adapting to unfamiliar environments. This work demonstrates his versatility in bridging technical and clinical challenges. Through both his clinical outcomes research and human-robot interaction studies, Raghunathan shows a consistent commitment to improving real-world systems, whether in the operating room or in robotic perception.