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Center for AI and Robotic Excellence in medicine (CARE)

The Center for Artificial intelligence and Robotic Excellence in Medicine (CARE) supports Gen-AI and robotics for interventional medicine research across Purdue & IUSM. Our mission is to support the unique needs of patients, surgeons and healthcare professionals through AI and robotics. CARE brings together leading researchers in Embodied AI, Field and Frontier Medicine, and Autonomous Diagnostic Clinics.

The Center will launch with a national workshop in fall 2025. Your philanthropic support will empower meetings to deepen partnerships and support students, and researchers allowing for Center growth.

At CARE, research and development efforts are anchored in three core focus areas:

Embodied AI, Field and Frontier Medicine, and Autonomous Smart Laboratories.

All the focus areas build on robust AI and robotics that promote the use of computation and automation to advance operational and clinical efficiency

while maintaining principles of responsible use of AI, fairness, usable and reliable technologies to improve medicine and population health in general.

Focus Areas

Embodied AI

Field and Frontier Medicine

Autonomous Smart Laboratories

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Affiliated Faculty

Juan Wachs

Juan Wachs

Director, CARE James H. and Barbara H. Greene Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering and the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University
Research Interests

Machine and computer vision

Robotics

Tele-operations

Human Computer Interaction

Assistive technologies and Health support systems

Babak Anasori

Babak Anasori

Reilly Rising Star Associate Professor of Materials Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
Research Interests

Nanofabrication

MXenes

2D materials

Ultra-high temperature materials

MAX phases

Karl Bilimoria

Karl Bilimoria, MD, MS

Chair of the Department of Surgery, Jay L. Grosfeld Professor of Surgery, Indianan University
Vice President for Surgical Quality, Indiana University Health
Research Interests

Provide hospitals with comparative data

Provide hospitals with tools to use actionable data to improve internal quality

Provide patients with better comparative data through public reporting

Evaluate policies that impact healthcare quality

David J. Cappelleri

David J. Cappelleri

Assistant Vice President for Research Innovation, Office of Research; B.F.S. Schaefer Scholar & Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering; Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering (by Courtesy)
Kyle Couperus

Kyle Couperus, MD

Chief Product Officer, Exonicus, Inc  Principal Investigator, The Geneva Foundation  MAJ, USAR, 75th Innovations Command  Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, USUHS Clinical Assistant Professor, UW
Bradley Duerstock, PhD

Bradley Duerstock, PhD

Professor of Practice, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering;
Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering;
Dept. of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, courtesy;
Dept. of Health and Kinesiology, College of Health and Human Sciences, courtesy;
Adjunct Prof., Dept. of Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology, Indiana University School of Medicine
Research Interests

Neurotrauma

Assistive Technology / Rehabilitation Engineering

Noninvasive Physiological Sensing / Wearable Devices

Accessible Design

Craig Goergen

Craig Goergen

Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University
Research Interests

Abdominal aortic aneurysms

Biomedical optics

Cardiovascular mechanics

Congenital heart disease

Left ventricle hypertrophy

Magnetic resonance imaging

Myocardial infarction

Peripheral arterial disease

Small animal ultrasound

Gabriel Gruionu

Gabriel Gruionu, M.S., Ph.D.

CEO, Owner, DRG Innovation LLC
Sooyeon Jeong

Sooyeon Jeong

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
Research Interests

Robotics and Computer Vision

Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing Human-Computer Interaction

Andrew Kirkpatrick

Andrew Kirkpatrick, MD

Professor, Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary
Research Interests

Surgery

Trauma

General Surgery

Fiona Kolbinger

Fiona Kolbinger, MD

Research Assistant Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University
Department of Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine, the Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science at Indiana University
Research Interests

Artificial intelligence-based tools for surgery

Personalized medical treatment

Interventional medicine

Evaluation of clinical value of interventions

Visceral, thoracic and vascular surgery

Anthony J. LaPorta

Anthony J. LaPorta, MD

Professor of Surgery and Military Medicine, U.S. Army Colonel, Ret.
Research Interests

Surgery

Military Medicine

Simulation

Immunology

Ramses Martinez

Ramses Martinez

Hall Family Rising Star Associate Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
Research Interests

Nanofabrication

Soft Robotics

Flexible Electronics

Wearable and Implantable Devices

Smart/Programmable Materials

Ahmed H. Quereshi

Ahmed H. Quereshi

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
Research Interests

Robotics

Artificial Intelligence

Flexible Electronics

Machine Learning

Natural Language Processing

Edgar Rojas-Muñoz

Edgar Rojas-Muñoz

Assistant Professor, Visual Computing and Computational Media, Texas A&M; University
Research Interests

Augmented Reality

Virtual Reality

Human-Computer Interaction

April Savoy

April Savoy

Associate Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
Adjunct Assistant Professor, IU School of Medicine
Faculty Investigator, Regenstreif Institute.
Research Interests

Health information technology

Cognitive systems engineering

Situation awareness

Usability

Health information exchange

Clinical decision-making

Yu She

Yu She

Assistant Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
Research Interests

Robotics

Mechanism Design

Tactile Perception

Neal Sikka

Neal Sikka, MD

Professor & Vice-Chair, Emergency Medicine, Director, Innovative Practice and Telehealth Section, The George Washington University
Research Interests

Telemedicine

Mobile Health

Remote Health Monitoring

Technology in Medicine

Innovative Practice

Stas Tiomkin

Stas Tiomkin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Whitacre College of Engineering, Texas Tech University
Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence

Intrinsic Motivation

R3 Learning {Robot, Reinforcement, Representation}

Control & Information Processing in Dynamical Systems

Emergence of Collective Intelligence from Individual Effort

Human-Machine Nexus / Bi-Directional Perception-Reasoning-Action Loop

Yuehwern Yih

Yuehwern Yih, Ph.D.

Tompkins Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
Research Interests

Design, monitor, and control of complex systems

Behavior-based dynamic control

Process/system model, analysis, and improvement

Machine learning and artificial intelligence

Denny Yu

Denny Yu

Associate Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
Research Interests

Quantifying intra-operative workload

Developing patient factors based workload models

Medical device design and usability testing

Integrating wearable sensor devices to develop intelligent health systems

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Team Members

Md Masudur Rahman

Md Masudur Rahman

Post-Doctoral Research Assistant; Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Pronoma Banerjee

Pronoma Banerjee

PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Amirreza Davar

Amirreza Davar

PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

Intelligent Systems

Assistive Technologies

Gloria Zhang

Gloria Zhang

PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Zhixian Hu

Zhixian Hu

PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Zhixian Hu

Maxwell Kawada

PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests

AI Integrated Surgical Robotics

Hamid Tarashiyoun

Hamid Tarashiyoun

PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Yupeng Zhuo

Yupeng Zhuo

PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

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