People Directory

Dianne T. V. Pawluk, A Viscoelastic Model of the Human Fingerpad and a Holistic Model of Human Touch, 1997 Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Aram Z. Hajian, A Characterization of the Mechanical Impedance of Human Hands, 1997. Dean, College of Science and Engineering, American University of Armenia.

William J. Peine, Remote Palpation Instruments for Minimally Invasive Surgery, 1998. Bakken Fellow & Senior Director, Surgical Robotics Technology Development Center, Medtronic.

Heather E. Gunter Moss, Mechanical Stress in Vocal Fold Tissue During Voice Production, 2003. Professor, Ophthalmology, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University.

Anna M. Galea, Mapping Tactile Information: Parameter Estimation and Deformable Registration, 2003. Senior Director, BlueRock Therapeutics.

Solomon G. Diamond, Cognitive Effects on the Neurophysiology and Biomechanics of Stroke Recovery, 2004. Associate Professor, Dartmouth College.

Christopher R. Wagner, Force Feedback in Surgery: Physical Constraints and Haptic Information, 2006. Co-Founder, Current Surgical.

Amy E. Kerdok, Characterizing the Nonlinear Mechanical Response of Liver to Surgical Manipulation, 2006. Director of Product Management, Outset Medical.

Ryan A. Beasley Model-Based Error Correction for Instrument Flexion in Robotic Surgery, 2006. Senior Developer, Onc.AI.

Aaron M. Dollar, Design Principles for Robust Grasping in Unstructured Environments, 2006. Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University.

Paul M. Novotny, Real-Time Processing of Three Dimensional Ultrasound for Intracardiac Surgery, 2007. Principal Machine Learning Developer, Onc.AI.

Petr Jordan, Image-based mechanical characterization of soft tissue using three dimensional ultrasound, 2008 Manager of Imaging Research, Accuray Corporation.

Shelten G. Yuen, Robotic Motion Compensation for 3D Ultrasound-Guided Beating Heart Surgery,  2009. Director of Research and Development, Fitbit Inc.

Peter E. Hammer (Ph.D., Tufts University), Simulating heart valve mechanical behavior for planning surgical repair, Staff Scientist, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School.

Robert J. Schneider, Semi-Automatic Delineation of the Mitral Valve from Clinical Four-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging, 2011. VP of Operations and Hardware Engineering at Butterfly Network, Inc.

Laura Brattain, 3D ultrasound visualization for procedure guidance, 2014. Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando.

Leif Jentoft, Sensing and Control for Robust Grasping with Simple Hardware, 2014. Co-Founder, RightHand Robotics Inc. (Start-up company from Howe Lab).

Neil Tenenholtz, Fast Surgical Simulation to Improve Mitral Valve Repair, 2014. Principal Research Engineer, Microsoft Research.

Paul Loschak, Motion Compensation of Cardiac Catheters: Steering and Control, 2016.  Principal Controls Software Engineer, Medtronic.

Alperen Degirmenci, Robotic Acquisition and Enhancement of Ultrasound Images, 2018. Senior Deep Learning R&D Engineer, Nvidia.

Yashraj Narang, Achieving Mechanical Versatility in Robots and Structures Through Laminar Jamming, 2018. Senior Robotics Research Scientist, Nvidia.

Qian Wan, Improving Tactile Sensing for Robotic Grasping, 2019. Robotics and AI R&D Engineer, Nvidia.

Buse Aktas, Multidimensional Tunable Mechanics Using Jamming, 2022. Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

Sebastian Roubert Martinez, Wearable Neuromotor Sensing, 2024.

Zixi Liu, Reliable Grasping with Tactile Sensing, 2024. Postdoctoral researcher, Meta AI.

Dimitrios Hristu-Varsakelis, 1994. Professor, University of Macedonia, Greece.

Mei Shibata, 1999. Founder and CEO, Essense Partners.

Jeremy W. Cannon, 2003 (MIT). Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania.

Alexander Koenig, 2022 (Technical University of Munich). Machine Learning Research Engineer, Merantix Momentum, Berlin.

Thomas Umbach, 2023 (ETH Zurich). Product Dev. Engineer, Mimic Robotics, Zurich.

Constantin Gemmingen, 2023 (ETH Zurich). Stealth-phase startup, Zurich.

Ludovico Papavasiliou, 2024 (ETH Zurich). AI Research Engineer, Bending Spoons. Milan.

Paul A. Millman (Ph.D. Northwestern University) 1995-1996. Present position: Vice President of Product Development, Intuitive Surgical Inc)

Jack T. Dennerlein (Ph.D. UC Berkeley) 1996 – 1998. Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Movement & Rehabilitation Science, Northeastern University

Jaydev Desai (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) 1998-1999. Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Yoky Matsuoka (Ph.D. MIT) 1998-2000. Vice President, Google.

Douglas P. Perrin (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) 2002-2005. Staff Scientist, Children’s Hospital Boston; Instructor, Harvard Medical School.

Marius G. Lingararu (Ph.D. Oxford University) 2004-2006. Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University; Principal Investigator, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC.

Riichiro Tadakuma (Ph.D. University of Tokyo) 2006-2008. Assoc. Prof., Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Yamagata University, Japan.

Mahdi Tavakoli (Ph.D. University of Western Ontario) 2007-2009. Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta.

Raye Chen-Hua Yeow (Ph.D. National University of Singapore) 2010-2012. Assoc. Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore.

Frank Hammond III (PhD Carnegie-Mellon University) 2011-2014. Asst. Prof., Georgia Institute of Technology.

Yaroslav Tenzer (Ph.D. Imperial College London); 2012-2015. Co-Founder and CEO, RightHand Robotics Inc. (start-up company from Howe Lab)

Leif Jentoft (Ph.D. Harvard University); 2014-2015. Co-Founder, RightHand Robotics Inc. (start-up company from Howe Lab); Chief Product Officer at Guardian Agriculture.

Richard Nuckols (Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University); 2017-2022. Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Xiaocong Li (Ph.D. National University of Singapore); 2020-2022. Research Scientist, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, A*STAR.

Cara Nunez (Ph.D. Stanford University); 2021-2023. Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University.

Soumyajyoti Maji (Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin); 2021-2023. Lecturer in Medical Electronics, University of Galway, Ireland

Letizia Gionfrida (Ph.D. Imperial College); 2022-present. Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Vision in the Department of Informatics, King’s College London.