Summary
David Hanley is an Assistant Professor in DePaul University's School of Computing specializing in state estimation, robotics, and healthcare applications, with a decade of experience bridging academia and industry. His work spans fiber-optic shape sensing for continuum robots used in robotic bronchoscopy to indoor positioning using building magnetic anomalies and inertial navigation developed during a PhD at UIUC. Prior roles include a postdoc at the University of Edinburgh's Surgical and Interventional Robotics Group and engineering internships at Qualcomm, Raytheon, JPL, Boeing, and GE, giving him practical systems and guidance-and-navigation depth. He has been recognized with fellowships such as the Illinois Space Grant and Mavis Future Faculty awards, reflecting a strong teaching and research trajectory. David’s background in aerospace and electrical engineering uniquely positions him to translate avionics-grade navigation techniques into surgical robotics and medical-device localization.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign