Loris Fichera
Associate Professor
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolLoris Fichera is an Associate Professor and medical robotics researcher with 14 years of experience applying engineering and computer science to advance computer- and robot-assisted surgery. Based in Worcester, MA, he has progressed from PhD work on weak-AI for surgical robotics through postdoctoral research to faculty leadership at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, developing technologies that aim to both improve current procedures and enable entirely new interventions. His background spans hands-on systems engineering—from industrial monitoring software and SAN administration to telerobotics HCI—which gives him a rare blend of practical systems experience and surgical-device innovation. Known for translating high-cognitive-load surgical tasks into feasible robotic assistance, he combines academic rigor with a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach to problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Medical Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Medical Robotics at University of GenoaMSc, Computer Engineering, MSc, Computer Engineering at Università di Catania
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
responsive9
jekyll-theme9
calculus9
jekyll9
jlink8
lambda8
lambda-calculus7
octave7
github-pages7
matlab7
cuda6
pyqt6
qfiledialog6
firmware6
interpreter6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
comet-lab/comet-lab.github.io
Dec 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
comet-lab/Shoemaker-Levy
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
These are the codes for optimizing the design of a flexible endoscope.
Contributions:5 PRs, 120 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 2 months
optimizingpythonflexible
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