Gregory S. Fischer

Biography

Education: PhD Mechanical Engineering Johns Hopkins University 2008 MSE Electrical Engineering Johns Hopkins University 2003 BS Mechanical Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) 2002 BS Electrical Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) 2002 Professor Fischer is a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Engineering with an appointment in Biomedical Engineering at WPI. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2008 from Johns Hopkins University, where he was part of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer Integrated Surgery. At WPI he has been an integral part of developing the Robotics Engineering program and teaches primarily junior-level and graduate courses in Robotics. He is the founding director of the Automation and Interventional Medicine (AIM) Robotics Laboratory located on the 2nd floor of 85 Prescott with the Robotics Engineering Program. He is also the faculty director for the WPI Healthcare Delivery Institute located on the 4th floor of 85 Prescott. Medical robotics and computer integrated surgery is a multi-disciplinary field dedicated to providing as much information to a surgeon during a procedure and using that information in a way to produce better outcomes. A focus of the research in the WPI AIM Lab is on medical robotics—the link that allows us to enable "closed loop medicine" by using real time feedback to guide a surgical procedure. In order to take the most advantage of robots in surgery, we work towards integrating real-time medical imaging with the interventional procedure. The AIM Lab also supports an active research program in wearable assistive and rehabilitative robotics, as well as socially assistive robots. Professor Fischer’s research interests include medical robotics, MRI-compatible mechatronics, computer-assisted and image-guided surgery, sensors and actuator development, soft wearable devices, socially assistive robots, and robotics education. For a full, up to date citation list of my work with links to the papers, please visit: http://aimlab.wpi.edu/publications

Research Interest

Healthcare Robots; Medical and surgical robotics; MRI-compatible mechatronics; Computer-assisted and Image-guided surgery; Sensors and actuator development; Wearable assistive and rehabilitative robotics; Socially assistive robots; Robotics education