Marcin Balicki
Robotics Software Lead at Philips
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcin Balicki is a Robotics Software Lead based in Cambridge, MA with 12 years of experience building image-guided surgical systems, biomedical devices, and AR-enabled training tools. He blends PhD-level research in surgical robotics from Johns Hopkins with hands-on mechanical and software engineering—leading cross-disciplinary teams at Philips to prototype and validate clinical robotic workflows. His work spans systems architecture, control, HMI, and image guidance, and he has shepherded technologies from lab demos to clinical and pre-clinical trials. As a co-founder of a surgical robotics startup he led productization, fundraising, and IP strategy, illustrating rare fluency across R&D, regulatory thinking, and commercialization. He also mentors students and companies in medical device R&D and has built eclectic projects from low-cost da Vinci actuators to Oculus-based AR training systems. A self-described Medical Robotics Scientist, he pairs deep academic rigor with practical product delivery across software, hardware and clinical integration.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityMaster of Engineering, Robotics, Master of Engineering, Robotics at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtCertificate, Studies focused on Central European Culture and Czech Language, Certificate, Studies focused on Central European Culture and Czech Language at University of Pennsylvania
English, Polish, French
Github Skills (12)
ethereum7
ros6
ndi5
meta4
robotics3
compile3
sdk3
linux2
polaris1
spectra1
vega1
aurora1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jhu-saw/sawOpenAL
Jul 2015 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 2 comments in 9 years 1 month
marcinbalicki/marcinbalicki.github.io
Jul 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
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