Leading Voices——Prof. Russell H. Taylor

Russell H. Taylor is the John C. Malone Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, with joint appointments in Mechanical Engineering and the School of Medicine. He is a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and an IEEE Fellow, with over 50 years of experience in robotics, artificial intelligence, and computer-integrated medicine. His research focuses on medical robotics, AI, human-machine collaboration, medical imaging, and computer-integrated interventional systems. He previously directed the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) at Johns Hopkins for more than a decade and is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. He has received numerous prestigious honors, including the IEEE Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Award, MICCAI Enduring Impact Award, and Honda Prize. Dr. Tangyou Liu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Electronic Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research focuses on multimodal perception, motion control, and intelligent decision-making for surgical robots, as well as robotics and AI. He has published 20+ papers, including first-author papers in IEEE T-RO, Nature Reviews Bioengineering, T-MECH, and IROS. He has received several awards, including the ICRA Best Poster Award, AIM Best Student Paper Award, KUKA Robotics China R&D Challenge Champion, and Second Prize in the International ICRA-RoboMaster AI Challenge. He serves as a Young Editorial Board Member of BIROB and Intelligence & Robotics.