Biography

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Publications

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• Microsoft Academic Search
• Medical papers
• Geometry papers

Recent Events

• 2013 IEEE Fellow Announcements: English Hebrew

• 2013 Keynote speaker: XLIII International Congress of the Andalucean Society for Trauma and Orthopaedics, Jan 31 -- Feb 2, Cordoba, Spain.
  

• 2012 Keynote speaker: 87th Meeting, SOFCOT
  Societe Francaise de Chirurgie Orthopedique et Traumatologie -- CAOS Section, Nov. 16, 2012, Paris, France.
  

• 2012 Keynote speaker: Medical Engineering Week , Chiba University, Japan -- Feb 21-23, 2012.
  

• 2010 IN THE LAB: TV INTERVIEW, ISRAEL BROADCAST AUTHORITY (Channel 1, In Hebrew) -- Sun Dec 19, 20:30PM
  -- from 4:40 to 8:40 Link to program on YouTube
  

• 2010 BOOK ON MIT PRESS
  The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms
  by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz
  MIT Press announcement
  Cover and table of contents

• CASMIP Lab Electronic Stand at the Automation 21xx Fair

• 2009-10 MADUA LECTURE SERIES
  The Digital Age Enters the Operating Room , Nov 15, 2009
  Video of the lecture (in Hebrew)

Prizes and Awards

• 2013 Elected, Fellow of the IEEE -- Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers.
  


• 2012 Elected, Fellow of the ASME -- American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
  

• 2010 M.E. MULLER AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY
  International Society for Computer Aided Orthopaedic Surgery, June 2010
  "The award recognizes a career long contribution to Computer Assisted Surgery, with achievements that have had a fundamental effect in advancing this research field."
  Award diploma

• 2007 KAYE INNOVATION AWARD
  
  • Press release -- Hebrew University (English) (Hebrew)
    
  • Press release -- United Press International
  • Scientific article -- PDF File

• 2007 OUTSTANDING ISRAELI PROJECT
  ROBOCAST: ROBOt and sensors integration for Computer Assisted Surgery and Therapy
  European Union 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.
  Awarded by the European Commission to the State of Israel, October 2007.
  Online TIME Magazine Article and Video --Nov 30, 2011

Research

• CASMIP Lab Brochure -- projects 2012
• Computer-Assisted Surgery and Medical Image Processing
• Computer-Aided Mechanical Assembly Design
• Geometric Reasoning and Applications
• Member, Center for Bioengineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  

Courses and Seminars for 2012-13

• Seminar on computer-assisted surgery, medical image processing, and medical robotics (fall)
• Computational geometry (fall)
• Medical image processing (spring)
• Projects for prospective students: this is only a sample -- contact me for more details
  Engineering and lab projects
  Previous projects

Editorial Boards

• Medical Image Analysis Journal, Elsevier Science.
• Int. Journal of Computer-Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Springer.
• Computer-Aided Surgery, Taylor and Francis.
• Advanced Engineering Informatics Elsevier Science.
• Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering ASME Press
• Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Professional duties

• CAOS-International: International Society of Computer-Aided Orthopaedic Surgery. Secretary General, elected June 2007.
• ISCAS: International Society of Computer-Aided Surgery. Executive council member since 2002.
• CARS 13: 27th Int. Congress on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Heidelberg, Germany, June 26-29, 2013. Organizing and program committees member.
• CAOS 13: 14th Int. Symposium on Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery, Orlando, Florida, USA, June 12-15, 2013. Program committee member.
• MICCAI 13: 16th Int.Conf. on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, Nagoya, Japan, Sept 22-26, 2013. Program committee member.
• CARDIOTECHNIX 13: Int. Congress on Cardiovascular Technologies, CARDIOTECHNIX 13: Int. Congress on Cardiovascular Technologies, Vilamoura, Portugal, September 19-21, 2013. Program committee member.
• GD/SPM 13: SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, Denver, Colorado, USA, November 11-14, 2013. Program committee member
• IPCAI 12: 3rd Int. Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions, Pisa, Italy, June 27, 2012. Program Co-Chair and Executive Committee member.
• MICCAI 12 Workshop : Deep Brain Stimulation Methodological Challenges , Nice, France, Oct 1, 2012. Co-organizer.
• MICCAI 12 Workshop : Interdisciplinary Clinical Software Support, Nice, France, Oct 1, 2012. Program Committee Member.
• MEXCAS 12: 13th Mexican Symposium on Computer-Aided Surgery and Medical Image Processing. Co-organizer, Sept 21, 2012, National Institute of Cardiology, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Activities in Mexico

Research collaborators and related sites

• Hadassah-University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
  • Profs. M. Liebergall, R. Mosheiff, Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery
    
  • Dr. Y. Shoshan, Dept. of Neurosurgery
    
  • Prof. J. Sosna, Dept. of Radiology
    
• Prof. S. Constantini, Dr. D. Ben-Bashat, Dr. L. Ben-Sira, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv.
• Prof. Moshe Shoham, Medical Robotics Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Eng., Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Prof. Elisha Sacks, Dept. of Computer Science, Purdue University, USA
• Prof. Russell H. Taylor, Johns Hopkins University,USA
• Mazor Robotics, Caesarea, Israel.
• Simbionix, Lod, Israel.
• Robotics Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Israel.
• NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology , USA