Sam Horvath
Principal Engineer at Kitware Inc.
Carrboro, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSam Horvath is a Principal Engineer with nine years of experience translating robotics and biomedical research into medical device and simulation R&D at Kitware. He holds a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon, where he built an OCT-based augmented reality microsurgery system and led human-subject studies on 3D perception under magnification. Sam’s career bridges academic innovation—haptic devices for the visually impaired and enhanced ultrasound probes—with applied engineering, progressing from R&D Engineer to Principal Engineer while shaping medical computing projects. Based in Carrboro, NC, he brings deep expertise in surgical imaging, haptics, and prototype systems integration, pairing rigorous experimental design with practical productization. An NSF Graduate Research Fellow, he combines curiosity-driven research instincts with a track record of shipping complex medical research tools.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, 3.84, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, 3.84 at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (172)
tractography10
python10
toolbox10
image-processing10
ply10
bids10
medical-imaging10
microscopy10
qt10
brain-imaging10
computed-tomography10
nifti10
arcgis-js-api10
slicer10
decomposition10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
KitwareMedical/SlicerCAT
Sep 2019 - Mar 2022
Example Application for Slicer Customization - Generated from KitwareMedical/SlicerCustomAppTemplate
Contributions:1 review, 17 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 6 months
qtcrosswordwixcmakekitware
sjh26/ExtensionsIndex
Mar 2018 - Feb 2022
Slicer extensions index
Contributions:3 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 11 months
nim-langindexsliceextensionscross-platform
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