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Gregory D. Hager is the Mandell Bellmore Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and the Founding Director of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare.  Professor Hager’s research interests include collaborative and vision-based robotics, time-series analysis of image data, and medical applications of image analysis and robotics. He is Past Chair of the Computing Community Consortium and a member of the governing board of the International Federation of Robotics Research. Professor Hager previously led the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. Prior to that he also led technology development groups for Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology and Amazon Robotics. Professor Hager is a fellow of the ACM, IEEE and AAAS for his contributions to Vision-Based Robotics and a Fellow of the MICCAI Society and of AIMBE for his contributions to computational imaging and his work on the analysis of surgical technical skill.