Dr. Alex Patriciu

Dr. Alexandru Patriciu is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University and is a member of the McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering. His research interests include robotics, medical robotics, automatic deformable objects / soft tissue manipulation, mechatronics.

Prior to joining McMaster in 2007, Dr. Patriciu was a staff scientist with the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland and a postdoctoral fellow with the Brady Urological Institute at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland. He earned a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Patriciu was involved in the development of several robots for image-guided interventions.