Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena
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| Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena | |
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 191105_rodriguez_baena_ferdinando_medical_robotics_020-2-scaled.jpg Prof. Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena in his lab, the Mechatronics in Medicine lab. | |
| Born | Italy |
| Status | Married |
| 💼 Occupation | Professor of medical robotics at Imperial College London |
Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena is Professor of medical robotics at Imperial College London, where he leads the Mechatronics in Medicine Lab (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mechatronics-in-medicine/). He is also the engineering co-director of the Hamlyn centre (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/hamlyn-centre/) at Imperial, and he leads the applied mechanics division of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mechanical-engineering/research/applied-mechanics/). Ferdinando was one of the founding members of the Imperial College Robotics Forum, which is the main point of contact for robotics at Imperial (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/robotics/). He is a Mechanical Engineering Postgraduate Tutor and the co-chair of the Mechanical Engineering Equality, Diversity and Departmental Culture Committee.
Ferdinando’s core research interests revolve around the topics of robotics and artificial intelligence for healthcare. In particular, important parts of his work are in the areas of orthopaedic surgery, rehabilitation, augmented and virtual reality for surgery, steerable needles for brain and liver surgery, and active constraints. However, his research also spans into other sectors such as robotics for inspection and maintenance of industrial assets and computer vision.
Ferdinando is dedicated to his family and his work, and he is recognised as a role model. His commitment has been recognised on various occasions, most recently receiving the Imperial College President’s Award for Excellence in Culture and Community in 2020.
Early life and education[edit]
Ferdinando was born and raised in Italy. He attended the Public Scientific Lyceum T. Taramelli in Pavia during his teens, before moving to California, USA, for a year, where he attended the Sacred Heart Preparatory High School in his last year of high school.
To continue higher education, Ferdinando moved to the United Kingdom, to study mechatronics and manufacturing systems at King’s College London where he graduated with an MEng and top marks in 2000. After graduating, Ferdinando started a doctorate at Imperial College London on robotic assisted orthopaedic surgery within the Mechatronics in Medicine Lab, supervised by Professor Brian Davies.
Ferdinando received his PhD in medical robotics from Imperial on 2004, with a thesis entitled “Improving Accuracy in Robotic Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery”. His work on a robotic system for knee replacement surgery gained him international recognition.
Career[edit]
After receiving his PhD, Ferdinando worked as a project manager at the start-up company The Acrobat Company Ltd in London. The company was subsequently acquired by Stanmore Implants Worldwide, and eventually by Striker for an amount close to £1bn.
In 2006, Ferdinando became an academic at the Department of Mechanical engineering, Imperial College London. In 2016, he became the Professor of medical robotics at Imperial College London.
Mechatronics in Medicine lab[edit]
Ferdinando has been leading the Mechatronics in Medicine (MiM) lab during his time as an academic at Imperial (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mechatronics-in-medicine/). Ferdinando took over the lab after Professor Brian Davies, the original founder.
As an academic and leader of the MiM lab, Ferdinando has attracted funding in excess of £12M as of 2019, from both public and private sectors. The funding has been associated with a number of projects, which include both blue skies search r as well as translational projects closer to commercialisation. The largest of these projects is an €8.3M European project on robotic-assisted neurosurgical drug delivery (EDEN2020 - https://www.eden2020.eu/).
Ferdinando has supervised a number of students and staff members and is currently directly supervising a team of 20 lab members, between PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and fellows. In the lab, Ferdinando is especially known for his rich, explicit and honest prose about all matters of life and work.
Additional roles and publications[edit]
Ferdinando was appointed engineering co-director of the Hamlyn Centre at Imperial College in 2019. Ferdinando also has multiple other roles within the university, as previously described, which include leading the applied mechanics division of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, speaker of the Imperial College Robotics Forum, Mechanical Engineering Postgraduate Tutor, and co-chair of the Mechanical Engineering Equality, Diversity and Departmental Culture Committee. A summary of Ferdinando’s roles and work responsibilities can be found in his institutional webpage (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/f.rodriguez) or IET paragraph (https://www.theiet.org/media/2517/meet-the-tpn-cc.pdf). During his career, Ferdinando has published over 160 papers and filed 6 patents; a relatively complete list of his publications can be found on his google academic page https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_htoZF8AAAAJ&hl=ca&oi=sra
Awards[edit]
Ferdinando’s work on excellent research and teaching has gained him numerous accolades. A shortlist of these are:
- 2010 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College, Best Academic in the 2nd year of the UG course award, as nominated by the students.
- 2011- Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College, Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence in Engineering Education.
- 2013 - Peter Leverhulme Prize for Engineering.
- 2016 - Talented Young Italians Research and Innovation Prize, the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK.
- 2020 Imperial College President’s Award for Excellence in Culture and Community.
- 2020 Imperial College President’s Award for Excellence in Research.
Selected Talks[edit]
The international reputation of Ferdinando as an outstanding researcher and leader have led him to be invited to give a number of talks. A short list of selected talks is:
- Keynote: “Flexible digits and flexible needle steering technology”, The RSM, London, UK, 2012.
- Keynote: “STING: a Soft Tissue Intervention and Neurosurgical Guide”, LM 2013, London, UK, 2013.
- Local organizing committee member: Hamlyn Symposium of Medical Robotics (’11-‘16).
- Invited Talk: “Steerable Instruments and a Biologically Inspired Case Study”, the Future of Robotics in Surgery, the Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK, 5th February 2015.
- Invited Talk: “Surgical Robotics and Orthopaedic Perspective”, The 2015 Innovative Surgical Robotics Forum, London, UK, 18th March 2015.
- Invited Talk: “Challenges of Needle Steering in Neurosurgery”, At the Cutting Edge of Science and Engineering Meeting, the Royal Society, October 2015.
- Keynote: “Navigation, robotics and virtual reality in shoulder surgery: the present and the future”, 28th SECEC-ESSSE Congress, Geneva, Switzerland, 19-22 September 2018.
- Keynote: “MedTech: Advancing an age old industry”, Barclays New frontiers, The Intercontinental, London, UK, 29 November 2018.
Membership of advisory committees[edit]
Ferdinando is a member of various committees:
- Committee Member: Imperial College Postgraduate Professional Development Committee.
- Committee Chair: The IET Communities Committee for Technical Professional Networks (CC-TPN).
- Executive Committee Secretary: British Society for Computer Aided Orthopedic Surgery.
- Program Committee Chair: International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery.
- Speaker: robotics@imperial (forum for robotics academics at Imperial College).
- Programme Committee Chair: The International Symposium of Medical Robotics (ISMR).
- Conference Co-Chair: 8th Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Robot Assisted Surgery (CRAS).
Work life balance[edit]
Ferdinando is married and has two children. Ferdinando enjoys playing sports such as bouldering, swimming, playing squash and pumping iron at the gym, usually together with some of these lab members. Ferdinando is also known to own a guitar, although there are limited reports of anyone hearing his playing. He is interested in and regularly practises meditation and mindfulness. Ferdinando is also a keen collector of the latest technological gizmos, and will frequently recommend the latest and coolest software apps to anyone in his network.
References[edit]
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