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Professor Grigore (Greg) Burdea, Ph.D. Rutgers University, CAIP CORE Bldg., Room 721, 96 Frelinghuysen Rd.,  Piscataway, NJ. 08854-8088, USA. Tel: 1-732-445-5309, Fax: 1-732-445-4775  burdea@caip.rutgers.edu

Education

Ph.D. Applied Science (Robotics), New York University, 1987

M.S. Applied Science, New York University, 1985

B.E./M.E. (Valedictorian) TCB, Bucharest 1980

Professional Experience

Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey

Director, Rutgers Tele-Rehabilitation Institute 2008 to present

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 2003 to present

Director, Human-Machine Interface Laboratory, 1989 - present

Columbia University

Department of Computer Science

Visiting Scholar, July - December, 2002.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Department of Computer Science

Visiting Scholar, July - December, 1994.

Conseil Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, France

Director of Research, June - September, 1993

Ministry of International Trade and Industry

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory,

Visiting Researcher, 1991, 1993.

Honors and Awards

• General Co-Chair, Virtual Rehabilitation 2009, Haifa, Israel, June 29- July 2, 2009.
  
• Invited Speaker, Edmonton III Conference: Enhancing Safety in Home, Community and Long Term Care, Edmonton, Canada, February 25 to 27, 2008.
  
• Founder and Treasurer, The International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation, 2008 to present
  
• Lead Program Chair, Virtual Rehabilitation 2007, Venice, Italy, September 27-29 2007.
  
• Keynote Speaker, First Roumanian Virtual Rehabilitation Conference, Bucharest, Romania, September 24-25, 2007.
• Keynote Speaker, Symposium on Virtual Reality, Petropolis, Brazil, May 28-20, 2007.
• Keynote Speaker, Virtual Rehabilitation: From Vision to Reality, University of Alberta, Canada, May 10-11, 2007.
• General Chair and Organizer, The Fifth International Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation, August, New York City.
• Keynote Speaker, Virtual Rehabilitation: Visioning the Art of the Possible Conference, May 27, University of Alberta, Canada, May 27, 2005.
•  Invited Speaker, NIH/DARPA/DOE/NSF Conference on Research Opportunities:  Translating Innovative Technologies for Pediatric Critical Care and Rehabilitation, 2005. Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, June 2002.
• Keynote address at the Symposium on Real World Information Systems, University of Tokyo, Japan, September 8 and 9, 2003.
• Keynote address at the 1st International Workshop on Virtual Reality Rehabilitation, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 7 and 8, 2002.
• Keynote address at the NATO Workshop on "What is Essential for Virtual Reality to Meet Military Human Performance Goals?," April 13-15, 2000.
• General Chairman of "IEEE Virtual Reality 2000 Conference." Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (close to 500 participants from more than 25 countries).
• Keynote address at the International Scientific Workshop on Virtual Reality and Prototyping, June 3-4, 1999, Laval, France.
• President Clinton's "Blue Book", selected as one of significant research projects by the National Science and Technology Council, 1998 and 1999.
• Who's Who in the East
• Who's Who in Science and Engineering
• Who's Who in Education
• Rutgers University - Faculty Academic Service Award

Publications

Total Books 6 www.vrtechnology.org

 Total Book Chapters 7

Total Journal Articles 47

Total Conference Papers 77

Total Invited Talks 88

Other

Total Patents 7

M. S. Theses Supervised 11

Ph.D. Theses Supervised 4