Septimiu Salcudean

Dr. Tim Salcudean received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from McGill University and his PhD from the University of California, all focused in electrical engineering. He was a research staff member in manufacturing research at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center from 1986 to 1989. He then joined the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering as well as the C.A. Laszlo Chair. From 2014 to 2020 he was natural sciences and engineering advisor to the UBC Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. 

He spent two sabbaticals in France, at the French Aerospace Lab (ONERA-CERT) and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He has been a co-organizer of the Haptics Symposium for the Haptics, Virtual Reality, and Human-Computer Interaction Workshop at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, a technical editor and senior editor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Robotics and Automation, and a program committee member of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) and Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI). He is currently on the editorial board of the International Journal of Robotics Research, on the steering committee of IPCAI 2023 and on the program committee of MICCAI 2023. He is a fellow of IEEE, MICCAI and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is also a founder and chief technology officer of Sonic Incytes, a UBC start-up specializing in liver assessment.

Dr. Salcudean’s current research interests are medical robotics, image-guided interventions and elastography. Learn more about his research here.