Russell H. Taylor, PhD, is a John C. Malone Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) with secondary appointments in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Medicine’s Departments of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Radiology and Radiological Science, and Surgery. He has more than 50 years of professional experience in the fields of computer science, robotics, and computer-integrated interventional medicine. For more than a decade, he served as the director for JHU’s Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, one of the most technologically advanced robotics research centers worldwide and an international leader in the areas of medical robotics, autonomous systems, and bio-inspiration.

Dr. Taylor is also a member of JHU’s Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, Institute for Assured Autonomy, and Data Science and AI Institute. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the National Academy of Inventors, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Society, and the Engineering School at the University of Tokyo. Prior to his appointment at JHU, he completed his PhD in computer science at Stanford University and subsequently served at IBM Research for nearly two decades, where he developed the AML robot programming language and held management roles in robot systems and technology, automation technology, and computer-assisted surgery.

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