VISE Seminar Series
2026 Fall Seminar Schedule
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Seminars have a start time of 11:45 am (lunch) and will be in various locations. Check the list below听蹿辞谤 details.听
- August 27, Thursday
VISE Summer Fellows Final Presentations
SVC 5326 - September 10, Thursday
Ruogu Fang, PhD
Flowers Family Dean's Faculty Fellow in Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering
LightHall 208 - September 24, Thursday
Pingkun Yan, PhD
Professor and Department Head of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
LightHall 208 - October 8, Thursday
Jack (Jiaqi) Wang, PhD
Assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University
LightHall 208 - October 29, Thursday
Allison Okamura, PhD
Richard W. Weiland Professor of Engineering at Stanford University in the Mechanical Engineering Department
LightHall 208 - November 8, Thursday
Omer Inan, PhD
Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair, Professor, Georgia Tech
Location TBD - November 19, Thursday
John Rolson, MD, PhD
Neurosurgeon and Neuroscientist at Brigham & Women鈥檚 Hospital and Harvard Medical School
LightHall 208
The VISE Seminar Series has a dual role in the School of Engineering as a major gathering activity for the 17c起草视频 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) and as a training component to the NIH-sponsored Surgical and Interventional Engineering Training Program (T32EB021937). One of the central aspects to surgical/interventional engineering is the assembly of multi-disciplinary physician-engineer teams for the improvement of patient care. As VISE comprises many laboratories across campus and the medical center, this engineering in surgery and intervention (ESI) thought-leaders seminar series has served as an activity for the faculty and trainees to come together to share, discover, and discuss trans-institutional research. The series has several formats that include: traditional seminars, informal research discussions, novel dual-speaker talks given by engineer-physician teams, and educational activities (e.g. grant writing workshops, research in progress reports, dissemination of new research techniques, intellectual property and technology transfer workshops, NIH peer review workshop, industry-academic summits, etc.).
We should also note that at the conclusion of the academic year, the seminar series transitions to an instructional summer seminar series where rising 2nd and 3rd-year trainees provide research in progress reports (RiPs).
One of the important outcomes of the seminar has been to introduce new faculty to VISE capabilities as well as foster new collaborative efforts toward pressing problems in surgery and intervention. The seminar series meets approximately every two weeks and hosts both internal and external speakers.