Yannek Isaac Leiderman

Yannek directs the Microsurgical Innovation and Novel Concepts Laboratory, a cross-disciplinary laboratory group developing tools and technology for intraoperative surgical guidance, assessment, and training in ophthalmic microsurgery. Translational investigations are directed toward two principal areas:

• Development of technology and techniques for the integration of surgical instrumentation, visualization, and imaging, leveraging machine learning and computer vision
• The design and implementation of high-fidelity ophthalmic surgical model systems to support training in advanced surgical techniques, adoption of novel surgical devices and technologies, and experimental techniques in microsurgery

A primary research direction of the group is to decode microsurgery, i.e., to begin to measure and understand the learning processes in microsurgery, and to deepen our understanding of the attainment of expert performance. Work in clinical applications and commercialization utilizes artificial intelligence methodologies coupled with surgical instrument tracking to create an enhanced microsurgical environment for ophthalmic surgery.