Leo Joskowicz PhD

Leo Joskowicz is a Professor at the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, where he conducts research in computer-assisted surgery, computer-aided mechanical design, computational geometry, and robotics since 1995. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, in 1988. From 1988 to 1995, he was at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, where he conducted research in intelligent computer-aided design and computer-aided orthopaedic surgery. In 1995, he joined as a Senior Lecturer the Institute of Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he founded, in 1996, the Computer-Aided Surgery and Medical Image Processing Laboratory, which he heads. From 2001 to 2009 he was the Director of the Leibniz Center for Research in Computer Science.