Gregory D. Hager's bio:

Gregory D. Hager is a Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University with joint appointment in Mechanical Engineering, and he serves as the Deputy Director of the NSF ERC for Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology. Prof. Hager received the BA degree, summa cum laude, in computer science and mathematics from Luther College in 1983, and the MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 and 1988, respectively. From 1988 to 1990, he was a Fulbright junior research fellow at the University of Karlsruhe and the Fraunhofer Institute IITB in Karlsruhe, Germany. From 1991 until 1999, he was with the Computer cience Department at Yale University. In 1999, he joined the Computer Science Department at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Hager has authored more than 160 research articles and books in the area of robotics and computer vision. His current research interests include visual tracking, vision-based control, medical robotics, and human-computer interaction. He is a fellow of the IEEE for his contributions in vision-based robotics. Gregory Hager has no relevant disclosures.

Gregory D. Hager's posts:

Trends in Computer-Assisted Surgery: Past, Present and Future

In this talk, Dr. Hager will outline some of the technical and commercial challenges in developing surgical assistance systems. Participants [MORE]