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Jacob Rosen

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering
University of California - Santa Cruz (UCSC)

Jacob Rosen is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, University of California - Santa Cruz (UCSC). His research interests focus on medical robotics, biorobotics, human centred robotics, surgical robotics, wearable robotics, rehabilitation robotics, neural control, and human-machine interface.

Dr. Rosen received his B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University in 1987, 1993 and 1997 respectively. From 1987 to 1992, he served as an officer in the IDF studying human-machine interfaces. From 1993 to 1997, he was a research associate developing and studying the EMG based powered Exoskeleton at the Biomechanics Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University. During the same period, he held a position in a start-up company developing innovative orthopaedic spine/pelvis implants. From 1997 to 2000, he was a Post-Doc at the departments of Electrical Engineering and Surgery, University of Washington developing surgical robotic and medical simulation systems. From 2001to 2008, he served as a faculty member at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington in Seattle with adjunct appointments with the Departments of Surgery, and Mechanical Engineering.

Since 2008 he has been directing the Bionics lab at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Dr. Rosen developed several key systems in the field of medical robotics such as the Blue and the Red Dragon for minimally invasive surgical skill evaluation that has been commercialised by Simulab as the "Edge", Raven which is a surgical robotic system for telesurgery, several generations of upper and lower limb exoskeletons, and most recently the Exo-UL7 which comprises two wearable robotic systems.

He is a co-author of 70 manuscripts in the field of medical robotics and a co-author and co-editor of a book entitled "Surgical Robotics - Systems, Applications, and Visions" published by Springer.