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Jared Lawson is pioneering the next generation of neuroendovascular robotics, with a research focus on steerable catheter design, robotic control, and intraoperative sensing for minimally invasive brain surgery. His most impactful work introduces self-steering catheters capable of navigating the tortuous neurovasculature, addressing a critical limitation of existing robotic systems by incorporating passive compliance for safety and lateral load sensing. Lawson has also developed a novel sensing modality that detects catheter-thrombus contact using vacuum excitation, a breakthrough for improving the safety and efficacy of mechanical thrombectomy. His contributions extend to model-based pose estimation of catheters under bi-plane fluoroscopy, enabling more precise robotic control by accounting for torsional deflections, and to kinematic analysis of wire-actuated continuum robots through the concept of tension transition zones. With recent publications in 2024 and 2025, his work has already garnered over 20 citations, reflecting growing interest from the surgical robotics community. Lawson’s research directly addresses the perception burden on interventionalists by advancing fluoroscopic shape tracking with custom radiopaque markers, promising safer and more autonomous neuroendovascular procedures.