Computer Vision and Physics-based Simulations for Medical Robotics and Mixed Reality
Speaker: Dr. Lueder A. Kahrs
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Biography
Dr. Lueder A. Kahrs is tenure-stream Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Toronto Mississauga with cross-appointments to the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Departments of Computer Science and Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Toronto.
He founded the Medical Computer Vision and Robotics (MEDCVR) lab and works towards robot autonomy in surgery. Lueder got his doctoral degree in engineering from the Department of Informatics at Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany in 2009 and his Diplom (comparable to combined M.Sc./B.Sc.) in Physics in 2002 from the University of Bremen, Germany. Since 2003, his research is focused on computer and robot assisted diagnosis and therapy.
Before coming to Toronto, he was senior scientist in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hannover as well as the Lower Saxony Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Implant Research and Development (NIFE), both in Hannover, Germany. Before that, he was postdoctoral researcher in Düsseldorf, Germany and Nashville, TN, USA in clinical settings. Lueder authored and co-authored over 150 publications, including 45 journal papers, 3 book chapters, 4 books as author or editor and several granted patents.