CARE Leadership
Juan Wachs, PhD
Inaugural Director, CARE James H. and Barbara H. Greene ProfessorEdwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
Machine and computer vision
Robotics
Tele-operations
Human Computer Interaction
Assistive technologies and Health support systems
Affiliated Faculty
Babak Anasori, PhD
Reilly Rising Star Associate Professor of Materials Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Purdue UniversityResearch Interests
Nanofabrication
MXenes
2D materials
Ultra-high temperature materials
MAX phases
Jiang Bian, PhD
Walther and Regenstrief Endowed Chair in Cancer Informatics;Professor and Vice Chair of Translational Informatics, Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science;
Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine
Chief Data Scientist, Regenstrief Institute;
Chief Data Scientist, IU Health;
Associate Dean for Data Science, IU School of Medicine
Karl Bilimoria, MD, MS
Chair of the Department of Surgery, Jay L. Grosfeld Professor of Surgery, Indianan UniversityVice 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, PhD
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, MD, MBA, BSN
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
Dov Dori, PhD
Professor Emeritus, IEEE Life Fellow; NCOSE Pioneer and Fellow, IAPR, AAIA, ER Fellow Head, Enterprise Systems Modeling Laboratory Technion, Israel Institute of TechnologyBradley 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, PhD
Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue UniversityResearch 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
Serena Jingchuan Guo, MD PhD
William S. Bucke Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Purdue University; AI Director, College of Pharmacy, Purdue University; Investigator, Regenstrief Institute
Sooyeon Jeong, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Purdue UniversityResearch Interests
Robotics and Computer Vision
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing Human-Computer Interaction
Andrew Kirkpatrick, MD, MHSc, FRCSC, FACS
Professor, Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, University of CalgaryResearch Interests
Surgery
Trauma
General Surgery
Fiona Kolbinger, MD
Research Assistant Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue UniversityDepartment 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
Jacques Kpodonu, MD
Division of Cardiac Surgery Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Surgery Harvard Medical School
Anthony J. LaPorta, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery and Military Medicine, U.S. Army Colonel, Ret.Research Interests
Surgery
Military Medicine
Simulation
Immunology
Ramses Martinez, PhD
Hall Family Rising Star Associate Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue UniversityResearch Interests
Nanofabrication
Soft Robotics
Flexible Electronics
Wearable and Implantable Devices
Smart/Programmable Materials
Ahmed H. Quereshi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Purdue UniversityResearch Interests
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Flexible Electronics
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Edgar Rojas-Muñoz, PhD
Assistant Professor, Visual Computing and Computational Media, Texas A&M UniversityResearch Interests
Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality
Human-Computer Interaction
Ismael Sanchez-Osorio, PhD
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Bioengineering, College of Engineering, Design and Computing, University of Colorado (CU)
April Savoy, PhD
Associate Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue UniversityAdjunct Assistant Professor, IU School of Medicine
Faculty Investigator, Regenstrief Institute.
Research Interests
Health information technology
Cognitive systems engineering
Situation awareness
Usability
Health information exchange
Clinical decision-making
Yu She, PhD
Assistant Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue UniversityResearch Interests
Robotics
Mechanism Design
Tactile Perception
Neal Sikka, MD
Professor & Vice-Chair, Emergency Medicine, Director, Innovative Practice and Telehealth Section, The George Washington UniversityResearch Interests
Telemedicine
Mobile Health
Remote Health Monitoring
Technology in Medicine
Innovative Practice
Stas Tiomkin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Whitacre College of Engineering, Texas Tech UniversityResearch 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
Samuel A. Tisherman, MD, FACS, FCCM
Professor of Surgery and the Program in Trauma, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Director, SICU and SIMC; Director, Center for Critical Care and Trauma Education, University of Maryland Medical Center
Ana Luisa Trejos, PhD, PEng
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Wearable Mechatronics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and School of Biomedical Engineering, Western University, London, ON Canada
La Tasha T. Washington, DTech, ADAT, MBA
Executive Assistant to the Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research, Chancellor's Area - Human Subjects Research Support, Clinical Trials Office, LSU Health
Andrew D. Wisneski, MD
Cardiothoracic surgeon with IU Health Bloomington; Assistant Professor of Surgery Practice Indiana University School of MedicineYuehwern Yih, PhD
Tompkins Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue UniversityResearch Interests
Design, monitor, and control of complex systems
Behavior-based dynamic control
Process/system model, analysis, and improvement
Machine learning and artificial intelligence
Healthcare system re-engineering
Denny Yu, PhD
Associate Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue UniversityResearch 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
Staff Members
Amirreza Davar
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial EngineeringResearch Interests
Intelligent Systems
Assistive Technologies
Maxwell Kawada
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial EngineeringResearch Interests
AI Integrated Surgical Robotics
Industrial Partners