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Shiva Mohan is a biomedical engineer and researcher whose work has made meaningful strides in the intersection of robotics, medical imaging, and cancer treatment. Specializing in minimally invasive surgical systems, Mohan has focused particularly on developing advanced robot-assisted approaches to lung brachytherapy — a technique involving the precise placement of radioactive seeds directly into lung tumors. His most cited work, "Electromagnetic navigation improves minimally invasive robot-assisted lung brachytherapy" (2008, 20 citations), demonstrated that integrating electromagnetic navigation into robotic surgical platforms could significantly enhance the accuracy and efficacy of seed placement, rivaling or surpassing traditional methods. Alongside this, Mohan contributed to the MIRA (Minimally Invasive Robot-Assisted) project series, culminating in a fully integrated, image-guided brachytherapy system that combined surgical robotics, ultrasound imaging, electromagnetic tracking, and dosimetry planning software into a coherent clinical workflow. His experimental test-bed designs provided the research community with reproducible frameworks for evaluating such systems. With a cumulative citation count approaching 40, Mohan's contributions represent an important step toward making lung cancer treatment more precise, less invasive, and technologically sophisticated — a body of work highly relevant for researchers exploring surgical robotics and oncological applications.