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
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assistant Professor, 1988 - 1993
Associate Professor, 1993 - 2003
Professor ECE Department, 2003 - present
Director, Human-Machine Interface Laboratory, CAIP Center, 1989
- present
Professor
Biomedical Eng. Department, 2005 - 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
Invited Speaker, Edmonton III
Conference: Enhancing Safety in Home, Community and Long Term Care,
Edmonton, Canada, February 25 to 27, 2008.
Lead Program Chair, Virtual Rehabilitation 2008, Venice, Italy,
September 27-29 2008.
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