Gregory Hager

Short CV

Gregory D. Hager is a Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. He received his BA from Luther College and his MSE and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986 and 1988, respectively. After a year as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Karlsruhe, he joined the faculty of Yale University in 1990. He moved to Johns Hopkins in 1999. His research interests include image-guided robotics, human-machine collaboration, and medical applications of image analysis and robotics. He has served as the Deputy Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology, he serves on board of the International Federation of Robotics Research, and he is a fellow of the IEEE for his contributions in vision-based robotics. He serves as Chair of the Computing Community Consortium.

Selected Awards

• 2014, Elected Chair of the Computing Computing Consortium Council
• 2012, Elected Member, Board of the International Federation of Robotics Research
• 2006, Elected Fellow of the IEEE
• 2006, MICCAI Best Paper Award
• 1988, Fulbright Junior Faculty Award
• 1988, Morris Ruben Outstanding Dissertation Award

Research Interests

• Robotics
• Vision
• Human-Machine systems
• Medicine

Selected Publications

• Zappella, Luca; Béjar, Benjamín; Hager, Gregory; Vidal, René: Surgical gesture classification from video and kinematic data. Medical Image Analysis 17 (7), 2013, 732-745.

• Ahmidi, Narges; Hager, Gregory D.; Ishii, Lisa; Gallia, Gary L.; Ishii, Masaru: Robotic Path Planning for Surgeon Skill Evaluation in Minimally-Invasive Sinus Surgery. In: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2012. Springer Science + Business Media, 2012.

• Tao, Lingling; Elhamifar, Ehsan; Khudanpur, Sanjeev; Hager, Gregory D.; Vidal, René: Sparse Hidden Markov Models for Surgical Gesture Classification and Skill Evaluation. In: Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions. Springer Science + Business Media, 2012.

• Gao, Y.; Sedef, M.; Jog, A.; Peng, P.; Choti, M.A.; Hager, G.; Berkley, J.; Kumar, R.: Towards validation of robotic surgery training assessment across training platforms. IROS, 2011.

• Ahmidi, Narges; Hager, Gregory D.; Ishii, Lisa; Fichtinger, Gabor; Gallia, Gary L.; Ishii, Masaru: Surgical Task and Skill Classification from Eye Tracking and Tool Motion in Minimally Invasive Surgery. In: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2010. Springer Science + Business Media, 2010.

• Su, Li-Ming; Vagvolgyi, Balazs P.; Agarwal, Rahul; Reiley, Carol E.; Taylor, Russell H.; Hager, Gregory D.: Augmented Reality During Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy: Toward Real-Time 3D-CT to Stereoscopic Video Registration. Urology 73 (4), 2009, 896-900.

• Varadarajan, Balakrishnan; Reiley, Carol; Lin, Henry; Khudanpur, Sanjeev; Hager, Gregory: Data-Derived Models for Segmentation with Application to Surgical Assessment and Training. In: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2009. Springer Science + Business Media, 2009.

• Reiley, Carol E.; Hager, Gregory D.: Task versus Subtask Surgical Skill Evaluation of Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgery. In: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2009. Springer Science + Business Media, 2009.

• Lin, Henry C.; Shafran, Izhak; Yuh, David; Hager, Gregory D.: Towards automatic skill evaluation: Detection and segmentation of robot-assisted surgical motions. Computer Aided Surgery 11 (5), 2006, 220-230.

See also a full publication list here.