» Who I am

I am a professor in the Computer Science Department at The Johns Hopkins University. My principal areas of research are computer vision and robotics, and my application interests these days are in the area of medical devices and human-machine systems. I direct the Computational Interaction and Robotics Lab (CIRL) in the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics which us sited in Hackerman Hall . I am also the deputy directory of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (CISST). I am a member of the Computing Community Consortium Council and the board of the International Federation of Robotics Research. I was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2006 for my contributions to computer vision and robotics.

» Research

• The Computation Interaction and Robotics Lab
• The Language of Surgery Project
• Balaur, the large-scale interactive display we are developing for the new Brody Learning Commons of the JHU library. Donations welcome..
• Recent publications | Some older publications

» Teaching

• 600.461 - Computer Vision
• 600.336 - Algorithms for Sensor-Based Robotics
• 600.226 - Data Structures

» Press, Talks etc.

• A talk on the "future of robotics" that I gave at a symposium at the DLR in November of 2011.
• A blog post about computer science and robotics
• A recent Gazette article that quotes me.

» Other Relevant Tidbits

• my Google Scholar profile.
• I am on the steering committee for the I4M Initiative which is a collaboration between the Whiting School of Engineering and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
• I am onthe governing boards for the Carey School of Business, the Armstrong Patient Safety Institute, the WSE Systems Institute, and the International Federation of Robotics Research.