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Samuel Byeongjun Park is a leading researcher in medical robotics, with a primary focus on developing advanced robotic systems for image-guided interventions and minimally invasive surgery. His most significant contributions lie in the design and automation of magnetic resonance image (MRI)-guided breast biopsy robots. Park’s seminal work, the MRSON system, introduces a novel (3+1) degree-of-freedom robot that operates within the confined intragantry space of an MRI scanner, utilizing a superelastic Nitinol needle to enable bendable, precise path planning for biopsy procedures. This innovation, detailed in his 2022 paper (13 citations), addresses critical challenges in targeting lesions under real-time imaging. His earlier foundational paper on the system’s overview and design considerations (2017, 24 citations) remains his most cited work, underscoring its impact on the field. Additionally, Park has contributed to haptic feedback for surgical robots, developing a master-slave system with grasp and push-pull force feedback (2015, 11 citations), and has explored nonrestraint optical master interfaces to overcome mechanical limitations in surgical robotics. Through these achievements, Park has established himself as a key innovator in automated, MRI-compatible robotic systems for precise, minimally invasive interventions.