Robert Grupp

Biography

I am currently an engineer at Proprio, a small startup company developing a navigation system for spine surgery. As a software engineer working on medical devices, I strive to write safe and efficient solutions that will improve patient care and outcomes.

I also hold an appointment as an adjunct research scientist in the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) working primarily with Mehran Armand, where I was previously a postdoctoral fellow.

Broadly speaking, my research interests include medical image analysis, computer integrated surgery, and medical robotics, including their overlap with computer vision, image processing, and computational photogrammetry.

I completed my PhD at JHU in the Department of Computer Science under the supervision of Russell Taylor. My dissertation research focused on the development of technologies to enable computer-assisted fluoroscopic navigation for orthopaedic surgery. A large portion of the original data collected during a series of cadaveric experiments is hosted by JHU and available here, and much of the software used for my dissertation research is available on GitHub. I was fortunate to be supported by a Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Graduate Fellowship during most of my PhD.

Prior to my time at JHU, I worked on various high-performance and embedded Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) exploitation algorithms as part of the Automatic Target Recognition group at Northrop Grumman: Electronic Systems.

My undergraduate studies were completed at the University of Maryland: College Park, studying Mathematics and Computer Science.

Interests

• Medical Image Analysis
• Computer Integrated Surgery
• Medical Robotics
• Computer Vision

Education

• PhD in Computer Science

  Johns Hopkins University

• MS in Computer Science

  Johns Hopkins University

• BS in Mathematics and Computer Science

  University of Maryland: College Park