Henry Phalen
Senior Robotics Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolHenry Phalen is a Senior Robotics Engineer with a decade of experience building hardware-software robotic systems in both academic and industry settings, currently at Johns Hopkins APL. He holds a PhD-focused background in mechanical engineering and robotics from Johns Hopkins, where he developed autonomous surgical and high-throughput bio-manufacturing systems that fuse X-ray imaging, state estimation, and constraint-based control. Henry excels at the hardware–software interface, having implemented modular ROS-friendly frameworks that integrate C++/Python and legacy code while enhancing simulation fidelity for continuum manipulators. His work spans mechanism design, control, and production-scale automation—evidenced by contributions to an automated mosquito dissection system for vaccine production and patents from medical-device automation projects. Colleagues value him for systems thinking, mentorship, and the ability to translate complex research prototypes into practical, verifiable engineering solutions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityMilford Senior High SchoolBachelor's degree, Bioengineering, Bachelor's degree, Bioengineering at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (24)
mri8
async7
asynchronous7
digital-pathology6
bids6
python6
blender5
medical-imaging5
neuroimaging5
computed-tomography5
robotics4
asyncio4
ros4
medical-image-analysis3
simulation3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
htp2/InjectionTrajectoryPlanner
Aug 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:42 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
LCSR-CIIS/ambf_util_slicer_plugin
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
some utilities for quickly converting volumes, markups from 3DSlicer into format accepted by AMBF simulator
Contributions:1 review, 22 commits, 11 PRs in 1 month
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