Dawn or Doom
Juan Pablo Wachs

Juan Pablo Wachs

"Wisdom in our Fingers -or how embodied interaction can shape future work"

Friday, September 25

STEW 214 AB: 11:30 - 12:30 PM

Applications of body- and gesture-based interfaces, and recognition in human-machine systems, are increasingly being used in healthcare, especially the use of robots in operating rooms.


Bio: Juan Wachs is an Associate Professor in the Industrial Engineering School at Purdue University. He is the director of the Intelligent Systems and Assistive Technologies Lab (ISAT) at Purdue, and he is affiliated with the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering. He completed a postdoctoral training at the Naval Postgraduate School’s MOVES Institute in under a National Research Council Fellowship from the National Academies of Sciences. He received his B.Ed.Tech in Electrical Education. His M.Sc and Ph.D in Industrial Engineering and Management, Information Systems and Intelligent Systems tracks, respectively, from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the recipient of the 2013 Air Force Young Investigator Award. He is the associate editor of IEEE Transactions in Human-Machine Systems and the Journal of Real-Time Image Processing.