Nobuhiko Hata
Professor at Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNobuhiko Hata is a professor and medical device executive with 19 years of focused experience in medical robotics, image-guided therapy, and surgical navigation based in Boston. He leads cross-disciplinary teams bridging engineering, imaging, and clinical practice to translate real-time medical image rendering, computer vision, and human–machine interfaces into safer, less invasive surgical tools. At Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital he combines research, mentorship, and industry collaboration—incubating startups, guiding regulatory strategy, and publishing foundational work that informs device development. A pragmatic engineer trained at the University of Tokyo (PhD), he designs and prototypes robotic systems end-to-end, writing control and integration software that brings patient-specific imaging into the operating room. Less obvious: he maintains active teaching and program-building roles across institutions (Brown, WPI, Kobe), deliberately seeding talent pipelines that accelerate clinical translation.
19 years of coding experience
University of Tokyo
Japanese
Github Skills (7)
vtk4
image-processing4
dataflow-programming3
visualization3
cluster-computing3
computed-tomography3
python3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
ProstateBRP/BRPRobot2021
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
BRAINSia/Slicer
Jan 2007 - Oct 2007
Multi-platform, free open source software for visualization and image computing.
Contributions:13 commits in 9 months
pythoncomputed-tomographycluster-computingregistrationdataflow-programming
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