INVITED SPEAKER

Smart Rehabilitation Devices

Dr. Constantinos Mavroidis
Northeastern University, USA

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Biography of the Invited Speaker

Dr. Constantinos Mavroidis has been a Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, since July 1, 2006. He has also been a Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston since October 2001. He was an Associate Professor in the same department at Northeastern University from January 1, 2004, to June 30, 2006, an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University (2001–2004) and an Assistant Professor in the same department (1996–2001). He received the Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1988, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Robotics from the University of Paris VI, France, in 1989 and 1993 respectively. From 1993 to 1996 he was a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Mavroidis is a Fellow of the ASME and has received numerous prestigious awards, including the 2004 Best of What’s New Award in the Personal Health category from the magazine Popular Science for the invention: “Smart Orthotic Device Using Electrorheological Fluids”. He has authored and co-authored more than 150 journal and conference papers and book contributions. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, the Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, the journal Bionanotechnology, The Open Nanomedicine Journal and the Journal of Nanotechnology.

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